Growth and Thermal Properties of Mg-Doped Lithium Isotope Niobate (Mg:7LiNbO3) Crystal

Autor: Xiaoru Pan, Nana Zhang, Jiyang Wang, Mingjun Song, Xishi Tai
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Crystals
Volume 8
Issue 8
Crystals, Vol 8, Iss 8, p 313 (2018)
ISSN: 2073-4352
DOI: 10.3390/cryst8080313
Popis: An Mg-doped isotope lithium niobate (Mg:7LiNbO3) crystal was successfully grown from 7LiOH, Nb2O5, and MgO using the Crozchralski method. The weight of the as-grown crystal with good quality was about 40 g. The crystal structure was determined as an R3c space group using the X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) method, and the crystal composition (Li%) determined using the Raman mode linewidth method was 49.29%. The average transmittance of the crystal in the range of 500&ndash
2500 nm was approximately 72%. Various thermal properties, including the specific heat (Cp), the thermal expansion coefficient (&alpha
), the thermal diffusion coefficient (&lambda
), and the thermal conductivity (&kappa
), were carefully determined and calculated, and the value divergences among Mg:7LiNbO3, the undoped isotope lithium niobate (7LiNbO3), and natural lithium niobate (LiNbO3) crystals were mainly related to the differences in microstructure caused by the crystal composition.
Databáze: OpenAIRE