Reduced thermal decomposition of OH-free LiNbO3 substrates even in a dry gas atmosphere

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2085-2091

  Nagata, Hirotoshi ^a   Sakamoto, Toshihiro ^a   Honda, Hideki ^a   Ichikawa, Junichiro ^a   Haga, Eungi Min ^a   Shima, Kaori ^a   Haga, Nobuhiko ^b  

^a SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MORPHOLOGY; PYROLYSIS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACES; THERMAL DIFFUSION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DRY ANNEALING; DRY GAS ATMOSPHERE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0030211748     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.1996.0262     Document Type: Article

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