SiO2 films were successfully deposited onto n-GaAs substrates by photo-chemical vapor deposition (photo-CVD) using a deuterium (D2) lamp as the excitation source. With a 1 MV/cm applied electric field, it was found that the SiO2 films leakage current densities were 1.74×10^(-6) and 1.97×10^(-7) A/cm^2, respectively, for the capacitors with as-deposition and 400℃ annealed insulator layers. The interface state densities, D(subscript it), were also found to be small for the fabricated A1/photo-CVD-SiO2/GaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) capacitors.