Inventors:
William Phillips - Princeton NJ
Assignee:
RCA Corporation - New York NY
International Classification:
G11C 1700
Abstract:
Lithium niobate single crystals doped with iron can be treated to reduce trivalent iron to divalent iron without reduction of the lithium niobate host crystal, by surrounding the crystal with a high-melting salt of lithium, such as lithium carbonate, and heating in an oxygen-containing atmosphere until the desired amount of reduction is obtained.