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Photoelectric Fields and Band Gap in Doped Lithium Niobate Crystals

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Photoinduced light scattering and optical spectroscopy have been used to study the photorefractive effect and determine the band gap in nominally undoped congruent and stoichiometric lithium niobate crystals, as well as in a series of congruent LiNbO3 crystals doped with Mg, Zn, B, Gd, Y, and Er cations and LiNbO3 single crystals codoped with Mg:Gd, Mg:Fe, Mg:Y, and Mg:Ta.

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

    N. V. Sidorov, M. N. Palatnikov & N. A. Teplyakova

  2. Far Eastern State Transport University, ul. Serysheva 47, Khabarovsk, 680021, Russia

    A. V. Syuy, E. O. Kile & D. S. Shtarev

  3. Kosygin Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kim Yu Chena 65, Khabarovsk, 680000, Russia

    D. S. Shtarev

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Original Russian Text © N.V. Sidorov, M.N. Palatnikov, N.A. Teplyakova, A.V. Syuy, E.O. Kile, D.S. Shtarev, 2018, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2018, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 611–615.

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Sidorov, N.V., Palatnikov, M.N., Teplyakova, N.A. et al. Photoelectric Fields and Band Gap in Doped Lithium Niobate Crystals. Inorg Mater 54, 581–584 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168518060134

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