Fermi-level movement at GaAs(001) surfaces passivated with sodium sulfide solutions

Abstract
Reflectance anisotropy spectrometry is used to study the electronic properties of sulfide‐passivated GaAs. The optical technique allows measurement of the Fermi‐level displacement at the surfacein situ, while the sample is immersed into a sulfide solution. The kinetics of the process was found to be very sensitive to conductivity type and doping level in GaAs.