Photoreflectance spectra were measured at room temperature for energies in the vicinity of the E_{0} critical point for p-type as well as n-type doped GaAs/SI-GaAs structures. Depending on the doping concentration the existence of two photoreflectance subsignals was observed; the first one arises from the surface space charge region while the second one from the interface region. The decomposition of photoreflectance spectrum into surface and interface subsignals was based on the photoreflectance measurements carried out for different wavelengths of the laser pump beam.
Gallium nitride layers were deposited on AlN and double layer (AlN/AlGaN) buffers grown at various temperatures on Al_{2}O_{3}. Stress in layers was evaluated based on the Raman scattering and photoluminescence measurements. The obtained values were less than 1 GPa.