The effect of uniaxial pressures (up to 200 bar) along the main crystallophysical axes on the spectral (300–750 nm) and temperature (77–300 K) dependences of the refractive indices ni(λ, T) of LiKSO4 crystals has been investigated. A baric increase in ni(λ, T) is revealed, which is caused by the increase in the electronic polarizability αi, bond refraction, and the change in the oscillator parameters due to the variation in the band gap Eg. It is shown that uniaxial pressure shifts phase-transition points both to high and low temperatures by affecting the crystal structure. A ternary point is found in which the incommensurate phase disappears and a paraelectric-to-commensurate phase transition occurs under pressure.
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