The electronic structure of CeO2 buffer layer is important to grow the desired layers over it.
The oxidation states of CeO2 films deposited on different substrates were investigated using XPS.
No reports are available on the XPS studies of CeO2 film on biaxially textured Ni-W substrate.
The Ce3d and O1s core level spectra reveal that the films mostly consist of Ce4+ species.
Valance band maxima value (∼2.6 eV) shows that all the deposited films are n-type in nature.