That depends.  If you're going to evaporate water the surface should be
hydrophilic.  In this case oxidizing should do the trick.

Roger Shile

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Subject: [mems-talk] Gold evaporation coating on silicon.

Hello

I want to coat silicon with evaporation coating, and
to assurance that the adhesion between the two
materials  will be optimal.
What will be  the optimal treatment to achieve
adhesion ?