Brillouin scattering study of ZnO

Polarized Brillouin scattering measurements were carried out for a bulk ZnO single crystal. The whole set of elastic stiffness constants was determined to be c11=19.0, c12=11.0, c13=9.0, c33=19.6, c44=3.9, and c66=4.0 in units of 1011 dyn/cm2. The relationships between photoelastic constants at wavelength of 514.5 nm were also obtained: p11, p13, p44, and p66=1.8, 2.3, 0.50, and 0.38, respectively, relative to p12.