Effect of Lithium Doping on the Properties L-Citrulline Oxalate Monohydrate Nonlinear Optical Crystals.docVIP

Open Journal of Metal, 2012, 2, 82-86 /10.4236/ojmetal.2012.24013 Published Online December 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojmetal) Effect of Lithium Doping on the Properties L-Citrulline Oxalate Monohydrate Nonlinear Optical Crystals Vallath Govindan Sreevalsa , Sankaran Jayalekshmi * Division for Research in Advanced Materials,Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochi, India Email: * sreevalsavg@, jayalekshmi@cusat.ac.in Received August 5, 2012; revised September 12, 2012; accepted September 22, 2012 ABSTRACT Single crystals of pure and Li technique. The effect of lithium doping on crystal properties has been studied. The samples are characterized by X-ray powder diffraction, TGA, FTIR, Raman and UV-Vis spectroscopic techniques. The presence of lithium in Li + doped L-citrulline oxalate (LCO) crystals are grown successfully by slow evaporation + doped LCO crystals is estimated using AES. The thermal stability and the optical transparency region are found to be en- hanced for the doped samples. The second harmonic generation efficiency of the doped crystal has improved considera- bly compared to pure L-citrulline oxalate. Lithium doping can hence be considered as a simple and advantageous tech- nique to improve the thermal, optical and non linear optical (NLO) properties of the LCO single crystals. Keywords: Doping; X-Ray Diffraction; Growth from Solutions; Single Crystal Growth; Nonlinear Optic Material 1. Introduction ceptibilities of the anionic groups can be calculated from the localized molecular orbital of the group by approxi- mation methods used in quantum chemistry. Some re- searchers are also of the opinion that the anion group in the crystal is not the only factor making contributions to the nonlinearity of the crystal. The cations, especially the cations with large radius and changeable electron-cloud, also play some significant role in the production of non