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Growth and characterization of semi-organic urea mercury chloride (UMC) nonlinear optical crystal

P. ILAYABARATHI1, J. CHANDRASEKARAN2,* , B.BABU2,3

Affiliation

  1. Research and Development Centre, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore-641 046, Tamil Nadu, India
  2. Department of Physics, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore- 641 020, Tamil Nadu, India
  3. Department of Science and Humanities, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore-641 008, Tamil Nadu, India.

Abstract

A semi-organic nonlinear optical crystal of urea mercury chloride Hg(CH4N2O)Cl2, have been grown by the slow evaporation technique. The grown crystals were subjected to various characterization techniques, such as single crystal XRD, powder X-ray diffraction analysis, FTIR, UV–visible and TG/DTA analysis. The crystal was characterized by energy dispersive X-ray analysis. The dielectric constant and dielectric loss have been studied. The low dielectric constant and dielectric loss suggests that this material is a good candidate for micro-electronics applications. The photoconductivity property of the grown crystal is also studied. Second harmonic generation was confirmed by the Kurtz and Perry powder technique..

Keywords

Crystal growth, Growth from slow evaporation, Single crystal X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared, Optical study, Dielectrics, Nonlinear optical test.

Submitted at: Feb. 18, 2015
Accepted at: Feb. 10, 2016

Citation

P. ILAYABARATHI, J. CHANDRASEKARAN, B.BABU, Growth and characterization of semi-organic urea mercury chloride (UMC) nonlinear optical crystal, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 18, Iss. 1-2, pp. 96-100 (2016)