We have used electrolyte electroreflectance (EER) to characterize ZnSe/GaAs and ZnSe/AlAs interfaces. The great sensitivity of EER to interface space-charge regions enabled us to detect both interface crossover transitions and transitions to triangular-well interface states. The observation of these transitions provides the first unambiguous proof that the ZnSe/GaAs interface is type I and allowed us to determine the band offsets and band bendings, the diffusion lengths across each interface, and the amount of interdiffusion.
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