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CRYSTAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 1, Pages 27-33Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/crat.200610765
Keywords
KDP; crystal morphology; single crystal growth; organic dyes; transmission spectra
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Potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystals doped with xylenol orange (XO) and methylthymol blue (MTB) are grown from aqueous solutions by the method of solvent evaporation at room temperature under the conditions of natural convection and by the method of temperature lowering. Studied is the influence of the mother solution acidity on the character of the crystal coloration. The color and coloration intensity of the grown crystals are shown to strongly depend on the solution's pH. It is revealed that the crystal habit changes in the presence of organic dyes. The optical transmission spectra and the luminescence spectra of KDP:XO solutions and of the grown crystals are measured. The effect of thermal treatment and UV-irradiation on the coloration stability of the crystals is studied. It is found that the laser damage threshold in the prismatic impurity rich colored sectors of KDP:XO is the same as that in the prismatic sectors of pure KDP crystals. (c) 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGa-A, Weinheim.
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