The temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity and the primary pyroelectric coefficient of lithium niobate crystals LiNbO3 grown from a melt with K2O flux was investigated in the range of 292–450 K . It is shown that these crystals are characterized by a strong anisotropy of electrical conductivity, and in the temperature range studied, proton conductivity dominates.
The paper is to discuss the main characteristics of the influence of high temperature annealing in different gas environments on the optical and structural properties of congruent lithium niobate crystals.
The kinetic dependence of the photorefractive effect in the congruent lithium niobate crystal is determined in the work. The adequacy of the model for calculating the photoelectric fields from the indicatrix of photoinduced light scattering is shown. Two methods for determining the induced birefringence by interferograms and on the parameters of photoinduced light scattering are compared.
Study on infrared absorption spectra of congruent lithium niobate crystals at low temperature