Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics [Acoustical Society of America 172nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America - Honolulu, Hawaii (28 November – 2 December 2016)] - Distribution of point defects in phononic periodically poled lithium niobate

摘要： The concentration of point defects is investigated along the neighboring domains in a ZX-cut periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) plate. PPLN is a ferroelectric phononic crystal (FPC) in which the inversion of polarization occurs across the interdomain wall. The spectra of photoluminescence (PL) are recorded along the domain structure parallel to the x-axis, at room temperature. The PL spectra reveal a nonuniform distribution of defects along the PPLN. The striking result is that some defects have narrow extrema in PL-intensity right in the interdomain wall location. The spread in PL intensity from the average is higher in PPLN when compared to single crystal lithium niobate. Engineering application of these findings may be new non-destructive characterization method of ferroelectric phononic crystals.