Growth and characterization of new NLO material: L-serine sodium nitrate

Abstract

Single crystals of L-serine sodium nitrate (LSSN), an organic nonlinear optical material have been synthesized by a slow evaporation technique at room temperature. The crystalline nature was confirmed by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The powder X-ray diffraction of a grown crystal was recorded and indexed. The chemical composition of grown crystals was determined by FTIR spectra. Optical absorption studies have shown that a UV cut off wavelength of the grown crystal is at 256nm and it has a wide transparency window. The second harmonic generation (SHG) efficiency of the grown crystal was confirmed by the Kurtz and Perry powder technique. Full text: PDF References: D.S. Chemla, J.Zyss, Nonlinear optical properties of organic molecules and crystals (Academic Press 1987). H. Ringertz, Structural Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry, Acta Crystallogr. B 27, 285 (1971). [CrossRef] T. Pal, T. Karand, B. Gabriel, L. Rigi, Morphology, Crystal Structure, and Thermal and Spectral Studies of Semiorganic Nonlinear Optical Crystal LAHClBr, Cryst. Des. 4, 43 (2004). [CrossRef] B.N. Moolya, A. Jayarama, M.R.S. Kumar, S.M. Dharmaprakash, Hydrogen bonded nonlinear optical g-glycine: Crystal growth and characterization, J. Cryst. 280, 581 (2005). [CrossRef] M.M. Khandpekar, S.P. Pati, Growth and characterisation of new non linear optical material a-glycine sulpho-nitrate (GLSN) with stable dielectric and light dependent properties, Opt. Comm. 283, 2700 (2010). [CrossRef] S.K. Kurtz, T.T. Perry, A Powder Technique for the Evaluation of Nonlinear Optical Materials, J. Appl. Phys. 39, 3798 (1968). [CrossRef]