Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2011
Studies of the thermal and photon-induced surface chemistry of dimethyl cadmium (DMCd) and dimethyl tellurium (DMTe) under ultrahigh vacuum conditions have been performed for substrate temperatures in the range of 133 K to 295 K. Results on GaAs(100) and Si(100) surfaces indicate that for DMTe, the predominant adspecies, dimethyl tellurium, can be photodissociated to a metal adspecies at both 193 and 248 nm. For DHCd, the major adspecies, monomethyl cadmium, is unreactive to photon stimulation.