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Stoichiometry and doping effects on cation ordering in LiNbO3 crystals

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The cation disorder in stoichiometric and congruent lithium niobate crystals and also in congruent crystals doped with Y3+ or Gd3+ has been studied by X-ray diffraction and Raman scattering spectroscopy using vacancy models. The results indicate that the structural disordering induced by doping with Y3+, revealed by both X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy, can be understood in terms of the mechanism of yttrium incorporation into the cation sublattice of the crystal. Yttrium substitution for Nb5+ on its normal lattice site causes Nb5+ to occupy vacant octahedra, thereby increasing the cation and vacancy disorder along the polar axis and distorting the octahedra because the ionic radius of Y3+ exceeds that of Nb5+.

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  1. Petrozavodsk State University, pr. Lenina 33, Petrozavodsk, 185910, Karelia, Russia

    E. P. Fedorova & L. A. Aleshina

  2. Tananaev Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Rare Elements and Mineral Raw Materials, Kola Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Fersmana 26a, Apatity, Murmansk oblast, 184209, Russia

    N. V. Sidorov, P. G. Chufyrev, A. A. Yanichev, M. N. Palatnikov, V. M. Voskresenskii & V. T. Kalinnikov

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Original Russian Text © E.P. Fedorova, L.A. Aleshina, N.V. Sidorov, P.G. Chufyrev, A.A. Yanichev, M.N. Palatnikov, V.M. Voskresenskii, V.T. Kalinnikov, 2010, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2010, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp.247–252.

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Fedorova, E.P., Aleshina, L.A., Sidorov, N.V. et al. Stoichiometry and doping effects on cation ordering in LiNbO3 crystals. Inorg Mater 46, 206–211 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168510020214

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