掺锰KLN晶体的生长及性能的研究

Potassium Lithium Niobate (KLN) crystal belongs to tetragonal system and is ferroelectric crystal,which point group is 4mm and space group is P4bm .The melt point of KLN crystal is about 1050℃.KLN crystal possesses tungsten bronze structure and its structure general expression is(A 1) 2(A 2) 4C 4(B 1) 2(B 4) 8O 3.KLN crystal is full fill up tungsten bronze structure crystal,in which the light of transmission band is 0.35-5.0μm.KLN crystal has excellent electro optical and nonlinear property and is superior double frequency crystal material for blue light.KLN crystal also is acoustic surface wave and photorefractive material.KLN crystal cracks easily during it grows.But when KLN crystal is doped in Mn 2O 3 to grow Mn∶KLN crystal,the crystal crack is reduced and the photorefractive property of the crystal is enhanced.KLN system is solid solution system and not congruent composition.The compounding ratio of Mn∶KLN crystal which we grew is 47.4mol% Nb 2O 5,17.3mol% Li 2CO 3,35mol% K 2CO 3 and 0.1mol% Mn 2O 3.The purity of Nb 2O 5,Li 2CO 3,K 2CO 3 and Mn 2O 3 is all 99.99%.Czochralski method was used to grow Mn∶KLN crystal.The technical parameters include the axial direction temperature gradient,the crystal growth rate and the rotation rate.Mn∶KLN crystal with 6mm×8mm×20mm size was grown in the condition that the axial direction temperature gradient is 30℃-40℃,the crystal growth rate is 0.5mm/h and the rotation rate is 10-15r/min.KLN crystal is one dimension ferroelectrics crystal.It has a paraelectrics ferroelectrics phase transition point curie point.So the crystal needs to be polarized in manual work.The direct current field was used to force the self polarization Ps in the same direction and the crystal turn to single domain.Before polarization,the c face needs to be confirmed exactly.The platinum pole was pasted to the two surfaces of c face and the direct current voltage about 220V was added the pole as the polarization outer electrical field.The polarization temperature is 460℃ and the polarization current density is 2mA/cm 2 .The thermal analyzer in TAS100 model was used to analyze the thermal expansion character of Mn∶KLN crystal and ascertain that the curie point of Mn∶KLN crystal is 435℃.It can be seen from the measurement result that the change of thermal expansion rate of Mn∶KLN crystal is smaller than that of pure KLN crystal. So doping Mn 2O 3 in KLN crystal to grow Mn∶KLN crystal can reduce the crack of the crystal.

A novel method to prepare metal oxide electrode:Spin-coating with thermal decomposition

In this work,we propose a new spin-coating method coupling with high thermal decomposition,to prepare the tin-antimony（Sn-Sb） oxide electrode.The character of the spin-coating electrode was compared with the dip-coating electrode through X-ray diffraction（XRD）,scanning electron microscopy（SEM）,accelerated life test,cyclic voltammetry,and electrolytic degradability. The results showed that the spin-coating electrode had a better defined crystal form,a smoother and more compact surface than that of the dip-coating electrode.Service time of the spin-coating electrode was determined to be longer than 15 h,and it was less than 2 min for the dip-coating electrode.Electrochemical characterization analysis showed that the electrolytic degradability of the spin-coating electrode is better than that of the dip-coating electrode.