Abstract
In the present research article, the structural stability and performance of dye-doped potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) powder samples were assessed under loading of dynamic shock waves. The obtained powder x-ray diffraction (XRD) profiles revealed that orientation defects and micro-distortions occurred in the crystalline phase due to the impact of shock waves. The results show that the abovementioned structural parameters were significantly altered, whereas the shocks did not lead to any structural phase transformation even when loading 100 shock waves for all the KDP samples. Hence, we suggest that KDP crystals have structural stability against dynamic shock wave impacts.