A laser photoionization method for the study of the CdS evaporation kinetics

The evaporation rates and saturation vapor pressures of cadmium sulfide and pure metallic cadmium are measured in the temperature ranges 585–950 K and 350–535 K, respectively, using laser resonance multistep photoionization. It is shown that CdS thermally dissociates into Cd atoms and S₂ molecules. The study is carried out in the framework of a scheme proposed earlier for photoionization of cadmium atoms. The measured minimum vapor pressure of pure cadmium is 10^?11 Torr.