It has been known that hydrogen can dissolve into a crystal of LiTaO
3. However, there is not much literature about the details of the hydrogen in LiTaO
3. In the present work, the transport properties and the location site of hydrogen in the non-stoichiometric LiTaO
3 single crystal was studied by the electrical conductivity measurement and the IR absorption analysis.
H
+/D
+ isotope effect on the conductivity was examined in order to verify whether proton in LiTaO
3 was dominant charge carrier. The result that no isotope effect was detected showed that proton was not the main charge carrier in LiTaO
3 in the measured temperature range 673-873 K.
On the displacement reaction of proton and deuteron, the annealing time dependence of IR absorbance was measured in order to estimate the self-diffusion coefficient of proton. The value was determined as
DH+=5.5×10
−8 cm
2/s at 973 K.
For single crystal of LiTaO
3, the crystal orientation dependence of IR absorbance was measured using polarized light. The analysis based on the one-dimensional model of the hydrogen bond showed that proton was locating between the O-O pairs on the basal plane.
The amount of dissolution hydrogen in LiTaO
3 equilibrated with gas mixture 1%O
2-3%H
2O-Ar at 773-973 K was estimated to be (1.3±0.4)×10
−8 mol/cm
3.
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