Single crystals of potassium sodium strontium barium niobate (KNSBN) and cobalt-modified KNSBN were prepared using the Czochralski technique. The ferroelectric hysteresis loops and the infrared reflectivity spectra were collected. Compared with the undoped KNSBN crystals, the cobalt-modified crystals have stable hysteresis loops, whose spontaneous polarization is about 0.17 C/m2 and coercive field strength is about 670 V/mm, but those of the undoped KNSBN crystals are about 0.04 C/m2 and 530 V/mm, respectively. The measured infrared reflectivities vary with the orientations of the dipole moments owing to the Co doping. The c axis becomes the most stable orientation of the dipole moments, and the polarization can be locked and does not recede when the cobalt-modified crystals are polarized into a single domain.

The crystal growth, the ferroelectric hysteresis loops, and the infrared reflectivity spectra of coppermodified strontium barium niobate (SBN) single crystals are reported. Compared with the undoped SBN crystals, the copper-modified crystals have stable hysteresis loops, the spontaneous polarization of which is about 0.30 C/m2, but that of the undoped SBN crystals is only about 0.12 C/m2. Their coercive field strength is all about 340 V/mm. The experimental results of the infrared spectra show that the infrared reflectivities vary as the orientations of the dipole moments owing to the copper-doping. The c-axis becomes the most stable orientation of the dipole moments, and the polarization will be locked and won't recede if the copper-modified crystals are polarized into monodomains.