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Photoacoustic studies on the thermal properties of the NLO compound: L‐alaninium maleate
Author(s) -
Britto Dhas S. A. Martin,
Ramachandran E.,
Raji P.,
Ramachandran K.,
Natarajan S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
crystal research and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.377
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1521-4079
pISSN - 0232-1300
DOI - 10.1002/crat.200610870
Subject(s) - photoacoustic imaging in biomedicine , thermal stability , scanning electron microscope , materials science , diffraction , crystal (programming language) , thermal , analytical chemistry (journal) , nonlinear optical , powder diffraction , thermal analysis , chemistry , crystallography , optics , nonlinear system , composite material , organic chemistry , thermodynamics , physics , programming language , quantum mechanics , computer science
Studies on thermal and optical properties are very essential for a nonlinear optical material. Photoacoustics (PA) is a recently developed non‐destructive testing (NDT) tool for studying such properties. L‐Alaninium maleate (C 3 H 8 NO 2 + ·C 4 H 3 O 4 ‐ ), an organic non‐linear optical (NLO) material was synthesized using submerged seed solution method and was characterized by single crystal X‐ray diffraction (XRD) and density. PA technique was used to determine the thermal parameters of LAM crystals. Moreover, possible phase transition analysis was conducted to ascertain the thermal stability. Scanning electron microscopic (SEM) studies were also carried out and crystal‐packing features discussed. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)