GaN and SiC detectors for radiation and medicine

Gallium nitride materials are now a billion dollar industry for optoelectronics. At the same time the robust qualities of GaN make it promising for use in smaller, but no less important, specialist applications such as the nuclear and medical sectors. A case in point is the work underway by James Grant, Andrew Blue and co-workers at the Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Glasgow. In development are detectors for harsh environments based on SiC and GaN. In parallel they are hoping to produce practical GaN UV detectors for proteomics - the study of proteins, notably that of circular dichrosim (CD)