Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative

Compact Power Supplies Based on Heterojunction Switching
in Wide Band Gap Semiconductors
North Carolina State University, University of California-Santa Barbara,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and University of California-San Diego

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The MURI team meets every six months to report progress and discuss results. Below are the presentations from most recent meetings.

02/12/02 Review - Hosted at North Carolina State University
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Schedule
Umesh Mishra/Steve DenBaars: AlGaN/GaN Power HEMTs, AlGaN/GaN HBTs and AlGaN/GaN CAVETs
Michael Shur: AlN/GaN/InN-based MOSHFETs, MISHFETs, and DHFETs
Ed Preble: SiC Influence on X-ray Measurements of GaN Films Compared with Photoluminescence and Electrical Data
Peter Asbeck: Barriers and Current Flow in Vertical Transistors
Ramon Collazo: Steady-State and Transient Electron Transport in AlN
Ted Cook: Measurements of the E-field Breakdown and Band Offsets of SiO2 on GaN
Phil Hartlieb: Electrical, Chemical, and Structural Characterization of the Interface formed between Au/Pd Contact Structures and Cleaned p-type GaN(0001) Surfaces
Evelyn Hu: Innovative Processing for GaN Power Devices
Zach Reitmeier: Characterization of III-Nitrides Grown on Hydrogen Etched 6H-SiC Substrates
Sven Einfeldt: Strain and Crystallographic Tilt in GaN Layers Grown by Maskless Pendeoepitaxy
Sergiy Komirenko/Ki Wook Kim: Carrier Transport Modeling for Compact Power Sources
David Clarke: Recent Progress on GaN Growth and Piezoelectric Coefficients
Jaesob Lee: Effects of Surface Oxide on Wafer Bonding of GaN and SiC

08/01/01 Review - Hosted at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Schedule
K. W. Kim and S. Komirenko: High-Field Transport Modeling for Compact Power Sources
R. Collazo, R. Schlesser, and Z. Sitar: Limits of ballistic transport in AlN
Z. Reitmeier and R. F. Davis: The Effect of SiC Substrate Quality and Surface Preparation on Epitaxial III-Nitride Films
A. Roskowski and R. F. Davis: Crystallographic Tilt, Strain and Surface Morphology of Uncoalesced and Coalesced Pendeo- Epitaxy GaN Thin Films
R. Nemanich: Polar Effects in Wafer Bonding of GaN and SiC
Peter Asbeck: Progress in Hot Electron Transistor Research
Michael Shur: GaN-based MOSHFETs, MISHFETs, HFETs, and MESFETs for Switching Applications
Sergei Rumyantsev: Current Collapse in GaN-based FETs