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Optical Grade LT (LiTaO3) Crystal For Optical Communication
Lithium Tantalate (LT, LiTaO3) has unique properties, which as a material finds uses in Electro-Optical and Acousto-Optical applications. These can be : surface acoustic wave devices, bulk acoustic wave devices, piezo-electric transducers and piezoelectric sensors.The 36° and 42 ° cuts of Lithium Tantalate have shown widespread adoption for the telecommunications mobile phone handset market at frequencies from 800 to 2100 MHz. These orientations show an optimized bandwidth / insertion loss trade off in performance and are dominating the ever expanding mobile handset sales.
Crystro provides:
Basic Properties of LiTaO3:
Crystal Structure | Trigonal, Space group R3c, Point group 3m |
Cell Parameters | a=5.154Å,c=13.781Å |
Melting Point | 1650℃ |
Curie Temperature | 607℃ |
Mohs Hardness | 5.5 |
Density | 7.46g/cm3 |
Dielectric Constants | ε11/ε0:51.7 |
ε33/ε0:44.5 | |
Elastic Stiffness Coefficients | CE11:2.33(×1011N/m2) |
CE33:2.77(×1011N/m2) | |
Piezoelectric Strain Constants | d22:2.4(×10-11C/N) |
d33:0.8(×10-11C/N) | |
Transmission range | 400-4500nm |
Electro-optical coefficients | r33=30.4pm/V |
Refractive index at 632.8nm | no=2.176,ne=2.180 |
Typical Specifications:
Specifications | Boule | Wafer | ||
Diameter | Φ3'' | Φ4'' | Φ3'' | Φ4'' |
Length or Thickness (mm) | ≤100 | ≤50 | 0.35-0.5 | |
Orientation | 127.86°Y,64°Y,135°Y,X,Y,Z, and other cut | |||
Ref.Flat Orientation | X,Y | |||
Ref.Flat Length | 22±2mm | 32±2mm | 22±2mm | 32±2mm |
Front Side polishing | / | Mirror polished 5-15 Å | ||
Back Side Lapping | / | 0.3-1.0μm | ||
Flatness (μm) | / | ≤15 | ||
Bow (μm) | / | ≤25 |
Crystro can offer other size and specification of wafers upon request.