Native oxides formation and surface wettability of epitaxial III-V materials: The case of InP and GaAs

A. Gocalinska; S. Rubini; E. Pelucchi

doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.04.153

Native oxides formation and surface wettability of epitaxial III-V materials: The case of InP and GaAs

A. Gocalinska
, S. Rubini
, E. Pelucchi

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Abstract

The time dependent transition from hydrophobic to hydrophilic states of the metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy (MOVPE) grown InP, GaAs and InAs is systematically documented by contact angle measurements. Natural oxides forming on the surfaces of air-exposed materials, as well as the results of some typical wet chemical process to remove those oxides, were studied by X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS), revealing, surprisingly, a fundamental lack of strong correlations between the surface oxide composition and the reported systematic changes in hydrophobicity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	19-27
Number of pages	9
Journal	Applied Surface Science
Volume	383
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.04.153
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2016

Keywords

GaAs
Hydrophobic surface
InP
MOVPE
XPS

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