Effect of $V_20_5$ on the surface and structural characteristics of potassium lithium niobate

Prasad, KVR and Philip, S and Varma, KBR (1991) Effect of $V_20_5$ on the surface and structural characteristics of potassium lithium niobate. In: Journal of Materials Science Letters, 10 (17). pp. 1019-1022.

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Abstract

It has been suggested [1] that materials with interesting and useful bulk non-linear optical properties might result by substituting vanadium, the lightest element in group V of the periodic table, for Nb or Ta atoms along with Li and three oxygens. It is with this motivation that we have been making attempts to grow single crystals of $LiNbO_3$ doped with various concentrations of $V_20_5$. Unfortunately, the results obtained on the ceramic samples of this material have not been very encouraging, owing to their hygroscopic nature. However, our attempts to prepare both ceramic and single-crystalline samples of potassium lithium niobate $(K_3Li_2Nb_5O_{15}; KLN)$ doped with $V_20_5$ were successful. In this letter we report the preliminary results concerning our studies on the effect of $V_20_5$ doping on the structural as well as topographic features of both ceramic and singlecrystalline samples of KLN.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Materials Science Letters
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Springer Netherlands.
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Materials Research Centre
Date Deposited:	06 Nov 2006
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:31
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/8420

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