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Depth profiles of hardening in lithium fluoride irradiated with swift58Ni ions
2004
The changes of hardness and dislocation formation in LiF crystals irradiated with 630-MeV 58Ni ions up to a dose of 20 MGy were studied by microindentation and dislocation etching techniques. Above the threshold fluence of 2 × 1010 ions/cm2, a marked effect of hardening, which is related mainly to damage processes in the track core, has been observed. Its magnitude depends on ion fluence and energy loss. To investigate the depth distribution of hardening, indentation tests on crystal cross sections cleaved parallel to ion flux were performed. It has been found that the hardness change along the ion path correlates with the ion energy loss and reaches the highest value at the Bragg maximum. …
Growth of Lithium Niobate Single Crystals from Granulated Charge
2011
Comparative studies of different techniques and the synthesis of single-phase granulated mixtures of high density essentially improving technical and economical parameters of lithium niobate single crystal technology are reported. Efficiency of using granulated mixtures of high density in growing lithium niobate single crystals is discussed.
Modelling of Cluster Formation in Optically Nonlinear Lithium Niobate Crystal
2011
Modelling of qualitative processes at formation of energetically stable clusters of oxygen octahedrons in the ferroelectric phase of lithium niobate (LiNbO3) crystal is considered with respect to composition. The structure of clusters arranged along the direction of crystallographic axis Y is shown to be the most ordered. The least ordered structures occur in clusters arranged along Z axis in the direction of which the values of ratio R = Li/Nb are most scattered.
The Cation Sublattice Ordering in the Ferroelectric LiNbO3:Zn Single Crystals
2014
It has been revealed for the first time by Raman spectroscopy that in LiNbO3:Zn crystal with Zn2+ concentration range 0.03–0.94 mol.% the ordering of the main doping cations and vacant octahedrons along the polar axis is better than in the undoped crystal of congruent composition. Thus, the configuration of oxygen octahedrons is closer to ideal. The line widths of the Raman spectra in this concentration range are narrower than in congruent LiNbO3 crystals and closer to the line width in stoichiometric crystals with the best known cation ordering. As far as Zn2+ concentration is small, the growth technique changes very slightly compared to the growth of the pure LiNbO3 crystals.
Quadratic nonlinear optical parameters of 7% MgO-doped LiNbO3 crystal
2016
International audience; Pure and 7% MgO-doped lithium niobate (LiNbO3) single crystals were grown by the Czochralski technique. The shift of optical absorption edge in 7% MgO-doped crystal in direction of shorter wavelength compared to undoped crystal was observed. The second harmonic generation measurements of 7% MgO-doped LiNbO3 crystal were performed at room temperature by means of the rotational Maker fringe technique using Nd:YAG laser generating at 1064 nm in picoseconds regime. Experimentally obtained value of nonlinear optical coefficient d33 for 7% MgO-doped LiNbO3 was found to be less than for undoped crystal but higher than for 5% MgO-doped. I-type phase-matched second harmonic g…
MICRO- AND NANO-STRUCTURES OF NOMINALLY PURE STOICHIOMETRIC LITHIUM NIOBATE SINGLE CRYSTAL IN RAMAN SPECTRA
2009
ABSTRACT The authors show that bandwidths in Raman spectra of ferroelectric photo-refractive single crystals may depend on wavelength of laser radiation exciting the spectrum. Raman bands of lithium niobate single crystals are broader if the spectrum is excited by laser radiation in visible as compared with the spectrum excited by infrared laser radiation. Local microscopic structural heterogeneities of altered index of refraction are shown to appear in parts of the crystal under laser irradiation. Under visible radiation the structural heterogeneities provide additional contribution to broadening of Raman bands. Similar microscopic heterogeneities are practically absent at laser irradiatio…
Near-field scanning optical microscopy to study nanometric structural details of LiNbO3 Zn-diffused channel waveguides
2008
A near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) is used to perform structural and optical characterization of the surface layer after Zn diffusion in a channel waveguide fabricated on lithium niobate. A theoretical approach has been developed in order to extract refractive index contrast from NSOM optical transmission measurements (illumination configuration). As a result, different solid phases present on the sample surface can be identified, such as ZnO and ZnNb2O6. They appear like submicrometric crystallites aligned along the domain wall direction, whose origin can be ascribed to some strain relaxation mechanism during the annealing process after Zn diffusion. Jose.Canet-Ferrer@uv.es
Influence of chemisorption products of carbon dioxide and water vapour on radiolysis of tritium breeder
2014
Abstract Lithium orthosilicate pebbles with 2.5 wt% excess of silica are the reference tritium breeding material for the European solid breeder test blanket modules. On the surface of the pebbles chemisorption products of carbon dioxide and water vapour (lithium carbonate and hydroxide) may accumulate during the fabrication process. In this study the influence of the chemisorption products on radiolysis of the pebbles was investigated. Using nanosized lithium orthosilicate powders, factors, which can influence the formation and radiolysis of the chemisorption products, were determined and described as well. The formation of radiation-induced defects and radiolysis products was studied with …
Physicochemical processes in blanket ceramic materials
2003
Abstract Effect of external magnetic field (MF) on important physicochemical processes in ceramic blanket materials, the Li4SiO4 (FZK) and Li2TiO3 (CEA) ceramic pebbles, was studied. Stoichiometric amounts of the radiation-induced defects (RD) of the electron and hole type form at radiolysis of the ceramic materials. Colloid lithium forms only in Li4SiO4 under irradiation at the temperature 423–473 K and the dose 10–20 MGy. The magnetic field increases the radiolysis efficiency by 20–25% in both materials. The efficiency of formation of RD decreases with the increasing temperature of irradiation. Complete recombination of RD takes place at 873 K. The magnetic field retards the tritium relea…
X-ray induced defects in advanced lithium orthosilicate pebbles with additions of lithium metatitanate
2019
Abstract Advanced lithium orthosilicate (Li4SiO4) pebbles with additions of lithium metatitanate (Li2TiO3) as a secondary phase have attracted international attention as an alternative solid-state candidate for the tritium breeding in future nuclear fusion reactors. In this research, the generation of radiation-induced defects in the Li4SiO4 pebbles with various contents of Li2TiO3 was analysed in-situ by X-ray induced luminescence technique. After irradiation with X-rays, the accumulated radiation-induced defects in the Li4SiO4 pebbles were studied by electron spin resonance, thermally stimulated luminescence and absorption spectrometry. On the basis of the obtained results, it is conclude…