Biocompatibility of semiconducting AlGaN/GaN material with living cells

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Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge partial funding of the work by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project scheme (DP0988241). William and Marlene Schrader Postgraduate Scholarship for Biomedical Engineering. KDGP is an ARC Future Fellow (FT100100271). We also acknowledge the scientific and technical assistance of the Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility at the Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation & Analysis, The University of Western Australia, and the Curtin University Electron Microscopy Laboratory, facilities funded by the universities, State and Commonwealth Governments of Australia. Furthermore we wish to acknowledge Angela Rizzi's group in the Faculty of Physics at Georg-August University of Goettingen and Umesh Mishra and Stephen DenBaars' groups at University of California Santa Barbara for the growth of AlGaN/GaN heterostructures. This work was performed in part at the Western Australian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility.