Structure and properties of niobium-doped potassium titanyl phosphate crystals
- 1 September 2000
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in Crystallography Reports
- Vol. 45 (5), 739-743
- https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1312912
Abstract
A series of potassium titanyl phosphate crystals, KTiOPO4, with various concentrations of niobium dopant has been grown, and some of their physical properties and structural characteristics have been studied. The incorporation of a small amount of niobium results in considerable changes in the electrical conductivity of KTP: Nb crystals and the temperature of the ferroelectric phase transition. Thus, the presence of 3–4 at. % of niobium results in an increase of conductivity by more than an order of magnitude, whereas TC decreases from 930 to 620°C. The X-ray diffraction study of the crystals has been performed at room temperature; the neutron diffraction analysis was made at temperatures of 20, 330, and 730°C. It was revealed that two crystallographically independent positions are statistically (by 90%) occupied by potassium cations, which results in the concentration of potassium atoms in the structure higher than it was expected from the condition of preservation of crystal electroneutrality. At high niobium concentrations, the monoclinic compound of the composition K2TiNb2P2O3 is formed.Keywords
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