Lithium niobate

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Lithium niobate

__ Li+     __ Nb5+     __ O2−
Names
Other names
Lithium niobium oxide, lithium niobium trioxide
Identifiers
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  • [Li+].[O-][Nb](=O)=O
Properties
LiNbO3
Molar mass 147.846 g/mol
Appearance colorless solid
Density 4.30 g/cm3[1]
Melting point 1,240 °C (2,260 °F; 1,510 K)[1]
None
Band gap 3.77 eV [2]
no 2.3007, ne 2.2116[3]
Structure[4]
Trigonal, hR30
R3c, No. 161
3m (C3v)
a = 0.51501 nm, b = 0.51501 nm, c = 0.54952 nm
α = 62.057°, β = 62.057°, γ = 60°
6
Hazards
Lethal dose or concentration (LD, LC):
8 g/kg (oral, rat)[5]
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Lithium niobate (LiNbO3) is a synthetic salt consisting of niobium, lithium, and oxygen. Its single crystals are an important material for optical waveguides, mobile phones, piezoelectric sensors, optical modulators and various other linear and non-linear optical applications.[6] Lithium niobate is sometimes referred to by the brand name linobate.[7]

Properties

Lithium niobate is a colorless solid, and it is insoluble in water. It has a

nanometers
.

Lithium niobate can be doped with magnesium oxide, which increases its resistance to optical damage (also known as photorefractive damage). Other available dopants are iron, zinc, hafnium, copper, gadolinium, erbium, yttrium, manganese and boron.

Growth

A Z-cut, single-crystal lithium-niobate wafer

Czochralski process.[8]

After a crystal is grown, it is sliced into wafers of different orientation. Common orientations are Z-cut, X-cut, Y-cut, and cuts with rotated angles of the previous axes.[9]

Thin films

Thin-film lithium niobate (e.g. for

MOCVD process.[12] The technology is known as lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI).[13]

Nanoparticles

Nanoparticles of lithium niobate and niobium pentoxide can be produced at low temperature.[14] The complete protocol implies a LiH induced reduction of NbCl5 followed by in situ spontaneous oxidation into low-valence niobium nano-oxides. These niobium oxides are exposed to air atmosphere resulting in pure Nb2O5. Finally, the stable Nb2O5 is converted into lithium niobate LiNbO3 nanoparticles during the controlled hydrolysis of the LiH excess.[15] Spherical nanoparticles of lithium niobate with a diameter of approximately 10 nm can be prepared by impregnating a mesoporous silica matrix with a mixture of an aqueous solution of LiNO3 and NH4NbO(C2O4)2 followed by 10 min heating in an infrared furnace.[16]

Applications

Lithium niobate is used extensively in the telecommunications market, e.g. in

optical waveguides. It's also used in the making of optical spatial low-pass (anti-aliasing
) filters.

In the past few years lithium niobate is finding applications as a kind of electrostatic tweezers, an approach known as optoelectronic tweezers as the effect requires light excitation to take place.[18][19] This effect allows for fine manipulation of micrometer-scale particles with high flexibility since the tweezing action is constrained to the illuminated area. The effect is based on the very high electric fields generated during light exposure (1–100 kV/cm) within the illuminated spot. These intense fields are also finding applications in biophysics and biotechnology, as they can influence living organisms in a variety of ways.[20] For example, iron-doped lithium niobate excited with visible light has been shown to produce cell death in tumoral cell cultures.[21]

Periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN)

Periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) is a domain-engineered lithium niobate crystal, used mainly for achieving

phase matching
in the medium due to a slight variation of the dispersion with temperature.

Periodic poling uses the largest value of lithium niobate's nonlinear tensor, d33 = 27 pm/V. Quasi-phase-matching gives maximum efficiencies that are 2/π (64%) of the full d33, about 17 pm/V.[22]

Other materials used for

PPKTP), lithium tantalate
, and some organic materials.

The periodic-poling technique can also be used to form surface nanostructures.[23][24]

However, due to its low photorefractive damage threshold, PPLN only finds limited applications, namely, at very low power levels. MgO-doped lithium niobate is fabricated by periodically poled method. Periodically poled MgO-doped lithium niobate (PPMgOLN) therefore expands the application to medium power level.

Sellmeier equations

The Sellmeier equations for the extraordinary index are used to find the poling period and approximate temperature for quasi-phase-matching. Jundt[25] gives

valid from 20 to 250 °C for wavelengths from 0.4 to 5 micrometers, whereas for longer wavelengths,[26]

which is valid for T = 25 to 180 °C, for wavelengths λ between 2.8 and 4.8 micrometers.

In these equations f = (T − 24.5)(T + 570.82), λ is in micrometers, and T is in °C.

More generally for ordinary and extraordinary index for MgO-doped LiNbO3:

with:

Parameters 5% MgO-doped CLN 1% MgO-doped SLN
ne no ne
a1 5.756 5.653 5.078
a2 0.0983 0.1185 0.0964
a3 0.2020 0.2091 0.2065
a4 189.32 89.61 61.16
a5 12.52 10.85 10.55
a6 1.32×10−2 1.97×10−2 1.59×10−2
b1 2.860×10−6 7.941×10−7 4.677×10−7
b2 4.700×10−8 3.134×10−8 7.822×10−8
b3 6.113×10−8 −4.641×10−9 −2.653×10−8
b4 1.516×10−4 −2.188×10−6 1.096×10−4

for congruent LiNbO3 (CLN) and stochiometric LiNbO3 (SLN).[27]

See also

References

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