N-Acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) and Glutathione S-Transferase μ (GSTM1) in Bladder-cancer Patients in a Highly Industrialized Area

The gene encoding the 33 kDa piroplasm surface protein of Theileria sergenti isolated in Korea was cloned and the nucleotide sequence was determined by dideoxy chain termination method. The cloned gene corresponds to 869 bp encoding an open reading frame 283 amino acids. Comparison of the sequence between Korean and Japanese isolates showed 99.4% homology rate in the nucleotide sequence and 98.9% homology rate in the amino acid sequence.     

Electrooptical Modulator at Telecommunication Wavelengths Based on GaN–AlN Coupled Quantum Wells

We report on the demonstration of an intersubband (ISB) coupled quantum-well modulator operating at room temperature and telecommunication wavelength using a GaN-AIN quantum-well structure. The optical modulation is shown to result from electron tunneling between the wells. Stark shifting of the ISB absorption is observed. The maximum modulation depth is 0.79% at lambda= 2.3 mum and 0.18% at lambda= 1.37 mum for a mesa device with only 151-nm interaction length. We show that by reducing the mesa size down to 15 times 15 mum², optical modulation bandwidth as large as 3 GHz can be obtained.     

Lattice-Matched GaN–InAlN Waveguides at λ = 1.55 μm Grown by Metal–Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy

We report on the demonstration of low-loss, single-mode GaN-InAlN ridge waveguides (WGs) at fiber-optics telecommunication wavelengths. The structure grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy contains AlInN cladding layers lattice-matched to GaN. For slab-like WGs propagation losses are below 3 dB/mm and independent of light polarization. For 2.6-mum-wide WGs the propagation losses in the 1.5- to 1.58-mum spectral region are as low as 1.8 and 4.9 dB/mm for transverse-electric- and transverse-magnetic-polarization, respectively. The losses are attributed to the sidewall roughness and can be further reduced by the optimization of the etching process.