Growth and physicochemical properties of second-order nonlinear optical 2-amino-5-chloropyridinium trichloroacetate single crystals

Abstract

The growth of organic nonlinear optical (NLO) crystal 2-amino-5-chloropyridinium trichloroacetate (2A5CPTCA) has been synthesized and single crystals have been grown from methanol solvent by slow evaporation technique. The grown crystals were subjected to various characterization analyses in order to find out the suitability for device fabrication. Single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis reveals that 2A5CPTCA crystallizes in monoclinic system with the space group Cc. The grown crystal was further characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectral analysis to find out the functional groups. The nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is a research technique that exploits the magnetic properties of certain atomic nuclei. The optical transparency window in the visible and near-IR (200--1100 nm) regions was found to be good for NLO applications. Thermogravimetric analysis and differential thermal analysis were used to study its thermal properties. The powder second harmonic generation efficiency measurement with Nd:YAG laser (1064 nm) radiation shows that the highest value when compared with the standard potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystal.

Keywords:

• X-ray diffraction
• organic compound
• nonlinear optical crystal
• thermal analysis

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the management and principal, SriGuru Institute of Technology, Coimbatore for their constant encouragement and everlasting support to continue the research work. The authors also express their gratitude to the dean (Research) Dr P. Ramasamy, Centre of Crystal Growth, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai for his valuable discussions. The authors would like to thank Mr K. Boopathi, research scholar, Centre of Crystal Growth, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai for his fruitful discussions. The authors are grateful to SAIF, IIT Madras for the characterization analysis.

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