Pm. Nikolic et al., Anisotropy in thermal properties of single crystal alpha quartz obtained by the photoacoustic method, ANAL SCI, 17, 2001, pp. S151-S153
Anisotropy in the thermal properties in alpha SiO2 single crystals SC cut m
ode 1 and mode 2 was investigated using the photoacosutic (PA) frequency tr
ansmission technique. The PA amplitude and phase diagrams were measured and
numerically analyzed. The obtained results for the thermal diffusivity for
SC mod1 was 0.34x10(-5) m(2)/s while it was 0.40x10(-5) m(2)/s for mode 2.
The differences in PA spectra for both SC cuts were larger compared with m
uch smaller differences which were observed using infrared reflectivity spe
ctra.