EFFECT OF STRUCTURE ON DEFECT FORMATION IN CRYSTAL OF LITHIUM BORIC OXIDE (LBO)

The effect of structure on the defective formation in non-linear optical crystal of lithium boric oxide(LBO)was studied by X-ray topography.Only a few dislocations with the density less than 50/cm2 occur in the specimen cut far from the seed.Most inclusive formed in the late growth stage show a regular orthorhombic shape with a definite orientation,which are due to the negative crystal growth happened further in the inclusioned melt.The grown-in dislocation takes nearly the screw character with the Burgers vector b almost all in the low index directions,however,the inclusion-induced dislocation is distributed much closely in a network parallel only to the plane of(010)and also takes the screw type with b all in the lowest diretions of this plane.The high movability of lithium ions in open structure and the loosely atmic packings on certain planes were taken into account for the defect formation in addition to for some other crystal properties.