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Raman and infrared spectra of KNbO3 in niobate glass-ceramics

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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER, 11 (22): 4451-4460 (1999)
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/11/22/315

Abstract

Potassium niobophosphate glasses and glass-ceramics of the family xNb(2)O(5).(50-x)P2O5. 50K(2)O:yFe(2)O(3) were studied by x-ray powder diffraction, infrared and Raman scattering spectroscopy. For the potassium-phosphate samples 50P(2)O(5)-50K(2)O the iron oxide presents a network former behaviour, for 2 mol% of Fe2O3 doping. The precipitation of crystalline K4Nb6O17 and ferroelectric KNbO3 crystals was confirmed by x-ray powder diffraction in the samples with x = 40 and 50 mol% respectively. The infrared and Raman scattering spectroscopy results suggest that the increase of the ratio Nb2O5/P2O5 leads the niobium to sites of octahedral symmetry and consequently to the formation of ferroelectric KNbO3, as seen by x-ray diffraction analysis.

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