Growth, optical, thermal, dielectric and mechanical studies of sodium hydrogen succinate single crystal.

Mageshwari, P.; Priya, R.; Krishnan, S.; Joseph, V.; Das, S.

Sodium hydrogen succinate, an alkali metallo-organic third-order nonlinear optical crystal, had been grown successfully using aqueous solution by slow evaporation technique at room temperature. Transparent single crystals were selected and subjected to single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis to identify lattice parameters, space group and morphology. The grown crystal was further subjected to powder X-ray diffraction to analyze the crystalline quality, UV-Vis-NIR spectral analysis to reveal optical transparency, FTIR spectroscopy for confirmation of the functional group analysis and TG-DTG/DSC analysis to determine the thermal stability. The dielectric constant and dielectric loss were studied as a function of frequency at different temperatures, and the results were discussed. The mechanical properties were calculated by Vickers microhardness test, and the third-order nonlinear optical parameters such as nonlinear refractive index, nonlinear absorption coefficient and real and imaginary parts of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility were determined by Z-scan technique.

SODIUM bicarbonate; SUCCINATES; SINGLE crystals; ORGANOMETALLIC compounds; OPTICAL properties of metals; THERMAL properties of metals; ELECTRIC properties of metals

Journal of Thermal Analysis & Calorimetry, 2017, Vol 128, Issue 1, p29

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Academic Journal

10.1007/s10973-016-5819-6