Directionally controlled 3D ferroelectric single crystal growth in LaBGeO5 glass by femtosecond laser irradiation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 23284-23289

  Stone, Adam ^a   Sakakura, Masaaki ^b   Shimotsuma, Yasuhiko ^b   Stone, Greg ^c   Gupta, Pradyumna ^a   Miura, Kiyotaka ^b   Hirao, Kazuyuki ^b   Dierolf, Volkmar ^c   Jain, Himanshu ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRICITY; GLASS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ABRUPT TRANSITION; BOROGERMANATE; FERROELECTRIC CRYSTAL; FERROELECTRIC SINGLE CRYSTALS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; LASER FABRICATION; LATTICE ORIENTATIONS; MICRO-RAMAN;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

BROMIDE; GLASS; LANTHANUM; LANTHANUM BROMIDE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ANISOTROPY; BROMIDES; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GLASS; LANTHANUM; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING;

EID: 72049117417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.023284     Document Type: Article

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