structural, optical, electrical and thermal characterizations of pure and l-alanine doped ammonium dihydrogen phosphate crystals结构、光学、电气和热特征的纯丙氨酸掺杂磷酸二氢铵晶体.pdf

Journal of Crystallization Process and Technology, 2011, 1, 18-25 doi:10.4236/jcpt.2011.12004 Published Online July 2011 (/journal/jcpt) Structural, Optical, Electrical and Thermal Characterizations of Pure and L-alanine Doped Ammonium Dihydrogen Phosphate Crystals Ferdousi Akhtar, Jiban Podder* Department of Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. E-mail : ferdousis@, *jpodder@phy.buet.ac.bd Received June 17, 2011; revised July 15, 2011; accepted July 23, 2011. ABSTRACT Pure ammonium diyidrogen phosphate and L-alanine doped ammonium diyidrogen phosphate crystals were grown from aqueous solutions by natural evaporation process . The grown crystals are characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy, Energy Dispersive X-ray, UV-visible spectroscopy and differential thermal analysis. Crystal structure has been studied by powder X-ray diffraction. Pure and doped crystals both possessed tetragonal structure. The optical transparency is found to increase with the increase of doping concentration in the grown crystals and band gap energies of all crystals have been calculated at their cut off frequencies. It is found that the optical band gap in- creases with doping concentrations. D.C. electrical conductivity of grown crystals along the growth axis was carried out at temperatures ranging from 35 - 140˚C by the conventional two-probe method. The conductivity of the crystals increases with temperature and also increases with the L-alanine concentration. The decomposition temperatures and weight loss have been estimated from the Thermo Gravimetric Analysis and Differential Thermal Analysis and hardness was found from the Vicker’s microhardness measurement. Keywords: Amino Acid, Solution Growth, Decomposition, Electrical Conductivity, Optical Transmission 1. Introduction group (-CH3) a