We performed MAX-DOAS measurements during the PRiDe-PRD2006 campaign in the Pearl River Delta region 50 km north of Guangzhou, China, for 4 weeks in June 2006. We used an instrument sampling at 7 different elevation angles between 3° and 90°. During 9 cloud-free days, differential slant column densities (DSCDs) of O4 (O2 dimer) absorptions between 351 nm and 389 nm were evaluated for 6 elevation angles. Here, we show that radiative transfer modeling of the DSCDS can be used to retrieve the aerosol extinction and the height of the boundary layer. A comparison of the aerosol extinction with simultaneously recorded, ground based nephelometer data shows excellent agreement.
Modulations of energy band and polarization field by fluorine ions in fluorine plasma treated AlGaN/GaN heterostructures were revealed by positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS). It is found that the annihilation probability is mainly governed by the electric field in the AlGaN/GaN heterostructure, which could be modulated by charged ions, opposite to what was first expected from the large number of plasma-induced defects such as Ga-vacancies. The modulation of electric field is successfully observed through the opposite changes in the S parameters on the two sides of the hetero-interface after fluorine plasma treatment due to the opposite E-field directions. Fluorine is experimentally proved to be negatively charged in GaN related materials, which is consistent with the operation principle of enhancement-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMT fabricated by fluorine plasma treatment. It is also suggested that PAS is a useful tool to probe the intrinsic electric field in AlGaN/GaN system. (C) 2010 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim