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LED due to the direct bandgap of the Ill-nitrides. However, due to the lack of a native substrate for GaN, sapphire or SiC substrates were and are still used. The biggest use of semiconductor-grade SiC is still for LEDs, but now it serves the role as the substrate for the active GaN layer rather than both the substrate and the active layer. Today there are high-freqnency metal-semiconductor-field effect transistors (MES-EETs) offered commercially, as well as an emerging market for Schottky diodes made from SiC. We are still at the beginning of the SiC revolution, however, and the material s full potential has yet to be realized. 

In the absence of suitable scavengers, recombination occurs within a few nanoseconds (19). Valence band holes (h+(vb)) have been shown to be powerful oxidants (20-231 whereas conduction band electrons (e (cb)) can act as reductants (24,251. The redox potentials of both, e and h+, are determined by the relative position of the conduction and valence band, respectively. Bandgap positions are material constants which have been determined for a wide variety of semiconductors (26). Most materials show "Nernstian" behavior which results in a shift of the surface potential by 59 mV in the negative direction with a pH increase of ApH = 1. Consequently electrons are better reductants in alkaline solutions while holes have a higher oxidation potential in the acid pH-range (26). Thus, with the right choice of semiconductor and pH, the redox potential of the e (cb) can be varied from +0.5 to -1.5 V (vs. NHE) and that of the h+(vb) from +1.0 to more than +3.5 V. This sufficiently covers the full range of redox chemistry of the H20/02 system (271. 

A class of futuristic solar cells, often called hot carrier solar cells, seeks to harvest the full energy of solar photons. Such cells would utilize the additional energy content of a blue photon relative to ared one.126 In present-day solar cells, equilibrated carriers are collected and hence all absorbed photons with energy greater than the bandgap contribute equally to the measured efficiency. The realization of such hot carrier solar cells therefore requires electron transfer processes that are competitive with nonradiative decay of molecules or phonon relaxation in solids.126 Literature data indicate that such relaxation occurs on a femtosecond timescale. The ultrafast... 

Inserting protons at - 0.10 V for 3 min (the position of the first redox peak in Fig. 1) turns the electrode green. The effect of proton insertion is clearly seen in the photoelectron spectrum, a low binding energy shoulder appears in the W 4f core level region (Fig. 2a). The new state, referred to as is shifted - 1.27 eV relative to and has a relative intensity of 0.22 with a full width half maximum (FWHM) of 0.91 eV. We also observe that the state increases in FWHM to 1.27 eV. The intensity of the state in the bandgap region has also increased. 

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