Abstract
Amino acids (L-Glutamic acid, L-Tartaric acid) doped Triglycine sulphate (TGS) crystals are grown by solution growth technique. Slow cooling as well as slow evaporation methods were employed to grow these crystals. The concentration of dopants in the mother solution was varied from 0.1 mol% to 10 mol%. The solubility data for all dopants concentration were determined. There is variation in pH value and hence, there is habit modifications of the grown crystals were characterized. Dielectric studies reveal slight distortion of lattice parameter for the heavily doped TGS crystals. TGA–DTA studies reveal good thermal stability. The dopants increase the hardness value of the material and it also depends on the concentration of the dopants. The detailed results on the spectral parameters, habit modifications and constant values have been presented..
Keywords
Solution Growth, Amino acids, Solubility, TGA-DTA studies.
Citation
D. NARAYANASAMY, P. KUMARESAN, P. AMBALAVANAN, P. M. ANBARASAN, Effect of amino acids doped TGS crystals for IR detectors, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 7, 9-10, September-October 2013, pp.784-788 (2013).
Submitted at: April 19, 2013
Accepted at: Sept. 18, 2013