Abstract
It is shown that vanadium layers deposited by magnetron sputtering onto GaAs accelerate surface oxide growth during thermal oxidation. The processes occurring during thermal oxidation on the surface and at the semiconductor–metal interface are interpreted under the assumption that vanadium deposition leads to the formation of an interfacial V x Ga y As z layer, which plays a key role in determining the mechanism of V/GaAs oxidation.
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