Growth and characterization of glycinium 3-nitrophthalate nonlinear optical single crystal

Abstract

The potential organic nonlinear optical single crystal of glycinium 3-nitrophthalate has been grown by slow evaporation solution growth technique (SEST) using water solution at room temperature. The single crystal x-ray diffraction confirms the monoclinic structure with the centro symmetric space group P21/c. The crystal shows good transparency about (80%) in the entire visible region with a lower cut off wavelength of 377nm. The physico-chemical changes, stability and decomposition stages of the Glycinium 3-Nitrophthalate compound were established by TG-DSC studies. The laser induced surface damage threshold value 6.2 GW/cm2 indicates that this material can be used for high power laser applications.