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Silicon boron nitride is the parent compound of a new class of high-temperature stable amorphous ceramics constituted of silicon, boron, nitrogen, and carbon, featuring a set of properties that is without precedent, and represents a prototypical random network based on chemical bonds of predominantly covalent character. In contrast to many other amorphous materials of technological interest, a-Si 3 B 3 N 7 is not produced via glass formation, i.e. by quenching from a melt, the reason being that the binary components, BN and Si 3 N 4 , melt incongruently under standard conditions. Neither has it been possible to employ sintering of μm-size powders consisting of binary nitrides BN and Si 3 N 4 . Instead, one employs the so-called sol-gel route starting from single component precursors such as TADB ((SiCl 3 )NH(BCl 2 )). In order to determine the atomic structure of this material, it has proven necessary to simulate the actual synthesis route. Many of the exciting properties of these ceramics are closely connected to the details of their amorphous structure. To clarify this structure, it is necessary to employ not only experimental probes on many length scales (X-ray, neutron- and electron scattering; complex NMR experiments; IR- and Raman scattering), but also theoretical approaches. These address the actual synthesis route to a-Si 3 B 3 N 7 , the structural properties, the elastic and vibrational properties, aging and coarsening behaviour, thermal conductivity and the metastable phase diagram both for a-Si 3 B 3 N 7 and possible silicon boron nitride phases with compositions different from Si 3 N 4 : BN = 1 : 3. Here, we present a short comprehensive overview over the insights gained using molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations to explore the energy landscape of a-Si 3 B 3 N 7 , model the actual synthesis route and compute static and transport properties of a-Si 3 B 3 N 7 .

Modelling structure and properties of amorphous silicon boron nitride ceramics