Growth, defect structure, and THz application of stoichiometric lithium niobate

K Lengyel, Á Péter, L Kovács, G Corradi… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Owing to the extraordinary richness of its physical properties, congruent lithium niobate has
attracted multidecade-long interest both for fundamental science and applications. The …

Chemical expansion affected oxygen vacancy stability in different oxide structures from first principles calculations

DS Aidhy, B Liu, Y Zhang, WJ Weber - Computational Materials Science, 2015 - Elsevier
We study the chemical expansion for neutral and charged oxygen vacancies in fluorite,
rocksalt, perovskite and pyrochlores materials using first principles calculations. We show …

Spectrally resolved spatiotemporal features of quantum paths in high-order-harmonic generation

L He, P Lan, Q Zhang, C Zhai, F Wang, W Shi, P Lu - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We experimentally disentangle the contributions of different quantum paths in high-order-
harmonic generation (HHG) from the spectrally and spatially resolved harmonic spectra. By …

Defect complexes in congruent and their optical signatures

Y Li, WG Schmidt, S Sanna - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
The structure and stability of defect clusters in LiNbO 3, as well as their influence on the
linear and nonlinear optical susceptibilities, are calculated within density functional theory …

Polaronic deformation at the impurity site in crystals

A Sanson, A Zaltron, N Argiolas, C Sada, M Bazzan… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Iron doped LiNbO 3 crystals with different iron valence states are investigated. An extended
x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy study highlights evident changes in the …

New insight into the helium-induced damage in MAX phase Ti3AlC2 by first-principles studies

Y Xu, X Bai, X Zha, Q Huang, J He, K Luo… - The Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
In the present work, the behavior of He in the MAX phase Ti 3 AlC 2 material is investigated
using first-principle methods. It is found that, according to the predicted formation energies, a …

Li Self-Diffusivities in Lithium Niobate Single Crystals as a Function of Li2O Content

J Rahn, P Heitjans, H Schmidt - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Li self-diffusion is investigated in LiNbO3 single crystals at temperatures below 773 K by
tracer diffusion experiments. Compared are single crystals with 49.9 mol% Li2O (near …

Influence of defects and domain walls on dielectric and mechanical resonances in LiNbO3

GF Nataf, O Aktas, T Granzow… - Journal of Physics …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Monodomain and periodically poled LiNbO 3 crystals (congruent composition) show
dielectric and piezoelectric resonances between 100 K and 900 K. Dielectric measurements …

Investigation of defect structure of impurity-doped lithium niobate by combining thermodynamic constraints with lattice constant variations

C Koyama, J Nozawa, K Maeda, K Fujiwara… - Journal of applied …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
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Point Defects and Defect-Induced Optical Response in Ternary LiInSe2 Crystals: First-Principles Insight

Y Li, X Zhao, X Cheng - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2015 - ACS Publications
Many experiments on LiInSe2 (LISe), a technologically important nonlinear optical crystal,
suggest that nonstoichiometric defects play an important role in changing the crystal color …