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Published July 1975 | Published
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Temperature Dependence of Single-Crystal Spinel (MgAl_2O_4) Elastic Constants from 293 to 423°K Measured by Light-Sound Scattering in the Raman-Nath Region

Abstract

The temperature dependence of single-crystal elastic constants of synthetic stoichiometric MgAl_2O_4 spinel has been measured by the light-sound scattering technique in the Raman-Nath region. The crystal is set into forced vibration by a single crystal LiNbO_3 transducer coupled to one crystal face. A He-Ne Laser beam is diffracted by the stress-induced birefringence inside the crystal. The diffraction angle is determined from the distance between two spots exposed on a photographic plate by the first order diffracted beams as measured by a microdensitometer. The sound wavelength inside the crystal is then inferred from the laser diffraction angle. Combining the sound wavelength with the measured transducer frequency, the velocity inside the crystal is determined typically to a precision of 0·05 per cent. In this method, the measurement of velocity is not dependent on either the determination of sample length or on phase shifts at sample-transducer interface. Velocities of four pure modes, L//[001], T//[001], L//[110], and T//[110](P//[110] are measured in the temperature range between 293 and 423°K. A linear temperature dependence is fit to the data by a least square method.

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© 1975 Royal Astronomical Society. Received 1974 September 20. This work was supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant # NGL05-002-069, Sup. 5. The authors wish to thank Dr Richard MacAnally and Professor Hiroo Kanamori for some very useful discussions. A portion of this work was performed under the auspices of the US Atomic Energy Commission.

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