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Growth of tetrakis thiourea potassium iodide as new second order optical material
Author(s) -
Prakash J. Thomas Joseph,
Vijayan N.,
Kumararaman S.
Publication year - 2008
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.200711062
Subject(s) - thiourea , evaporation , crystal (programming language) , chemistry , iodide , crystal growth , second harmonic generation , single crystal , analytical chemistry (journal) , fourier transform infrared spectroscopy , potassium , inorganic chemistry , materials science , nuclear chemistry , crystallography , laser , optics , organic chemistry , physics , computer science , thermodynamics , programming language
A novel organometallic nonlinear optical (NLO) crystal, namely thiourea complex of tetrakis thiourea potassium iodide (TTPI), has been grown by slow evaporation solution growth technique. The harvested crystal is large in size. To our knowledge there is no report is available for the bulk size single crystal of TTPI. This material has a positive temperature coefficient and has been grown by slow evaporation solution growth technique. The grown crystal have been characterized by employing several techniques such as single crystal and powder X‐ray diffraction, FTIR, UV‐Vis‐NIR spectra, thermo gravimetric analyses respectively. Etching studies have also been carried out in order to know the surface defects on the as grown specimen of TTPI. The relative second harmonic generation efficiency have been tested by using Nd:YAG laser as source. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)