Growth and Characterization Studies of an Organic Nonlinear Optical Crystal - Oxalic Acid Dihydrate

A. Gandhimathi¹ , R.T. Karunakaran² , A. Elakkina Kumaran³ , S. Prabahar⁴ , R. Sathyalakshmi⁵

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.8 , Issue.3 , pp.54-59, Jun-2020

CrossRef-DOI:   https://doi.org/10.26438/ijsrpas/v8i3.5459

Online published on Jun 30, 2020

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Abstract :
An organic nonlinear optical (NLO) material, oxalic acid dihydrate (OAD) was grown by slow evaporation technique of solution growth method using the solvent tetrahydrofuran at constant temperature (35 ?C). Single crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) was utilized to determine the lattice parameters of the grown crystal and the crystalline nature was examined by powder XRD. The existence of various functional groups was observed by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) analysis. From Ultra violet-visible (UV-vis) study, the lower cut-off wavelength was indicated as 237 nm. The dielectric and photoconductivity analyses were also performed for the developed OAD crystal. The improved Kurtz and Perry powder technique was employed to find the second harmonic generation efficiency (SHG) of the crystal. The characterization results obtained throws light on the grown OAD crystal and conveys that is a good material to be utilized in the field of non-linear optics and applications

Key-Words / Index Term :
NLO organic crystal, OAD, XRD, SHG, Dielectric, Photoconductivity

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