“…The stability in specific condition is an important indicator to evaluate the prospect of the passivated SAMs. The re-oxidation mechanism of passivated Ge surface can be summarized as the following two stages [8,31,45,46]: In the initial stage of oxidation, as the presence of defects or sub-oxide in the SAMs structures, the Ge surface is attacked by oxidizing agents including oxygen, boiling water, sulfuric acid or peroxide [26], thereby, the Ge-S or Ge-C bonds are broken and the transition oxide layer is formed. Once the degradation process begins, the protection against oxidation afforded by SAMs is eliminated.…”