• DocumentCode
    378612
  • Title

    Polarization and nonlinearity in Lithium Niobate

  • Author

    McPherson, Michael S. ; Breazeale, M.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Center for Phys. Acoust., MS, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    387
  • Abstract
    Lithium Niobate is well known for its polarizability into a piezoelectric material. Along the piezoelectric direction, there can be the complicating presence of an evanescent wave at the boundary of the sample. This affects measurements of the nonlinearity parameter, β, along the [001] direction in both the poled and unpoled states. New measurements of β in Lithium Niobate (both poled and unpoled) are presented. The effect of the polarization phase transition giving rise to piezoelectricity was to reduce β from 1.6 to 1.0
  • Keywords
    dielectric polarisation; lithium compounds; piezoelectric materials; LiNbO3; evanescent wave; lithium niobate; nonlinearity parameter; piezoelectric material; polarization phase transition; Acoustic measurements; Acoustic propagation; Acoustic signal detection; Capacitive sensors; Face detection; Lithium niobate; Maxwell equations; Piezoelectric materials; Piezoelectric polarization; Piezoelectricity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Ultrasonics Symposium, 2001 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Atlanta, GA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7177-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ULTSYM.2001.991646
  • Filename
    991646