Structural, Spectroscopic, Thermal studies of Pure and DL-Methionine Doped ADP Crystals

International audienceThe growth of Nonlinear Optical crystals retains great number of attention nowadays. Ammonium Dihydrogen Phosphate (ADP) is an important NLO material used for electro-optical applications and LASER material for Nd: YAG and Nd: YLF etc. Amino acids due to their properties like molecular chirality and zwitter ionic structure attract many researchers to dope them in ADP for the improvement of its properties. The Pure and 0.1wt% DL-Methionine doped ADP crystals were grown using slow solvent evaporation technique at room temperature. The Powder XRD shows single phase nature of doped crystal with slight variation in unit cell parameters. The interaction of DL-Methionine with functional groups of ADP crystal was studied using FT-IR spectroscopy. The TGA curve of pure ADP sample indicates that it remain stable upto 200 o C and then decompose slowly, while the doped sample slowly decomposes right from beginning of the analysis. The DTA curves exhibits endothermic peaks at 209 o C and 212 o C for pure and doped sample, respectively. Introduction. Ammonium dihydrogen phosphate (ADP) is important isomorphs of the Potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) type crystal, which is used for several nonlinear optical applications and higher SHG efficiency of fundamental laser with large NLO coefficients [1-2]. Amino acids possess properties like molecular chirality, absence of strongly conjugated bond and Zwitter ionic nature [3] attracted researcher to dope them in KDP [4] and ADP [5,6] crystals to improve the NLO performance and other properties. DL-Methionine consists of a 4-carbon aliphatic straight chain, the distal end of which is capped by a complex guanidinium group. The conjugation between the double bond and the nitrogen lone pairs, the positive charge is de-localized, enabling the formation of multiple H-bonds. In present context, the authors have doped amino acid DL-Methionine in ADP crystals to investigate its effect on structural, spectroscopic and thermal properties