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RODRIGUEZ-MIJANGOS, R; VAZQUEZ-POLO, G; PALAFOX, J.J.  y  PEREZ-SALAS, R. An optical criterion to obtain miscible mixed crystals in alkali halides. Rev. mex. fis. [online]. 2008, vol.54, suppl.2, pp.15-20. ISSN 0035-001X.

This work gives a novel criterion to predict the formation of alkali halide solid solutions and discusses some results obtained in the development of ternary and quaternary miscible crystalline dielectric mixtures of alkali halides. These mixtures are miscible in any concentration of their components. The miscibility of these mixed crystals is quite related to the F center through the behavior observed in the spectral position of the optical absorption F band as a function of the lattice constant of the alkali halide where the F center was formed. By inspection of an energy graph of the F band energy versus lattice constant (Mollwo-Ivey law), a set of points is observed corresponding to several pure alkali halides (such as KCl, KBr, RbCl), which gives a notion of possible mixed materials that would correspond to adjacent points and a solid solution could be obtained, meaning a single phase crystal, which result in ternary and quaternary mixed crystals. Thus, the optical absorption F band allows have a numerical criterion, based on the percentage respective of the F band energy, in order to predict possible solid solutions. We obtained experimental information using diffractograms of the mixed crystals, from which the lattice constant was obtained and compared with a theoretical calculus using a generalization of Vegard's law, finally it is discussed the case of a crystal growing, starting from five components, picking up five consecutive dots from the graph of Mollwo-Ivey's law.

Palabras llave : F center; olid solutions; optical properties; dielectric mixtures; defects in alkali halides crystals.

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