Inorganic Chemicals Industry ›› 2024, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (6): 1-13.doi: 10.19964/j.issn.1006-4990.2023-0473

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Research progress of preparation and device application of lithium niobate crystal ferroelectric domain

CHEN Yuneng1(), CHEN Kunfeng1(), XUE Dongfeng2   

  1. 1.Institute of Novel Semiconductors,State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials,Shandong University,Jinan 250100,China
    2.Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,Shenzhen 518110,China
  • Received:2023-09-28 Online:2024-06-10 Published:2024-06-20
  • Contact: CHEN Kunfeng E-mail:2350202477@qq.com;kunfeng.chen@sdu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Lithium niobate is a multifunctional crystal with physical properties such as piezoelectric,ferroelectric,pyroelectric,electro-optical,acousto-optical,photoelastic,nonlinear and so on.With the continuous progress of lithium niobate iron domain engineering and the development of lithium niobate single crystal thin film technology,more excellent properties of lithium niobate have been developed,which are widely used in optical waveguides,electro-optical modulators,nonlinear optics,quantum devices and other fields.Future widespread applications in photonics may form the era of “lithium niobate valley”.The domain inversion method,growth mechanism,domain structure characterization method,application of ferroelectric domain engineering,and the latest research progress of lithium niobate thin-film devices such as optical waveguides,electro-optical devices,and quantum devices were emphatically introduced.With the transformation of lithium niobate from “bulk” to "thin film",combined with micromachining technology,the application field of lithium niobate changed from independent devices to small multi-device integrated chips,and lithium ferroelectric domain engineering of lithium niobate would play a more important role in the process of building small fully integrated chips.

Key words: lithium niobate, ferroelectric, domain inversion, electro-optical application, quantum device

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