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Metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) growth systems are one of the main types of equipment used for growing single crystal materials, such as GaN. To obtain film epitaxial materials with uniform performance, the flow field and temperature field in a GaN-MOCVD reactor are investigated by modeling and simulating. To make the simulation results more consistent with the actual situation, the gases in the reactor are considered to be compressible, making it possible to investigate the distributions of gas density and pressure in the reactor. The computational fluid dynamics method is used to study the effects of inlet gas flow velocity, pressure in the reactor, rotational speed of graphite susceptor, and gases used in the growth, which has great guiding significance for the growth of GaN film materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As one of the most important tumor-associated antigens of colorectal adenocarcinoma, the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) threatens human health seriously all over the globe. Fast electrical and highly sensitive detection of the CEA with AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor is demonstrated experimentally. To achieve a low detection limit, the Au-gated sensing area of the sensor is functionalized with a CEA aptamer instead of the corresponding antibody. The proposed aptasensor has successfully detected different concentrations (ranging from 50 picogram/milliliter (pg/ml) to 50 nanogram/milliliter (ng/ml)) of CEA and achieved a detection limit as low as 50 pg/ml at . The drain-source current shows a clear increase of 11.5 μA under this bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gallium nitride- (GaN) based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) provide a good platform for biological detection. In this work, both Au-gated AlInN/GaN HEMT and AlGaN/GaN HEMT biosensors are fabricated for the detection of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) hybridization. The Au-gated AlInN/GaN HEMT biosensor exhibits higher sensitivity in comparison with the AlGaN/GaN HEMT biosensor. For the former, the drain-source current ( V) shows a clear decrease of 69 μA upon the introduction of 1 μmolL(μM) complimentary DNA to the probe DNA at the sensor area, while for the latter it is only 38 μA. This current reduction is a notable indication of the hybridization. The high sensitivity can be attributed to the thinner barrier of the AlInN/GaN heterostructure, which makes the two-dimensional electron gas channel more susceptible to a slight change of the surface charge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lateral Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) on AlGaN/GaN heterojunctions are fabricated and studied. The characteristics of the fabricated SBDs with different Schottky contact diameters and different Schottky-Ohmic contact spacings are investigated. The breakdown voltage can be increased by either increasing the Schottky-Ohmic contact spacing or increasing the Schottky contact diameter. However, the specific on-resistance is increased at the same time. A high breakdown voltage of 1400 V and low reverse leakage current below 20nA are achieved by the device with a Schottky contact diameter of 100 μm and a contact spacing of 40 μm, yielding a high V2BR/RON,sp value of 194 MW.cm−2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]