Line‐focus‐beam (LFB) acoustic microscopy is applied to quantitative characterization of piezoelectric LiNbO3 crystals to demonstrate the usefulness of this new analytical technique. Experimental relations between chemical composition ratios of Li/Nb and leaky surface acoustic wave (LSAW) velocities for 128°YX LiNbO3 wafers are determined. LSAW velocity measurements are carried out for commercial wafers obtained from a series of crystal growths. Small changes of 0.092% are detected due to the compositional variation. It is estimated that the ‘‘effective’’ congruent composition in the production line is 48.440 Li2O mol% with the density of 4647.4 kg/m3.
Published in:
Applied Physics Letters
(Volume:58
,
Issue:
23
)
Date of Publication:
Jun 1991
- Page(s):
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2622
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2624
- ISSN :
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0003-6951
- Digital Object Identifier :
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10.1063/1.104813
- Product Type:
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Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
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18 June 2009
- Issue Date :
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Jun 1991