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Growth and Optical, Thermal and Electrical Characterization of
LHC-LHB Mixed Crystals
J. Suja Rani*
, K. Jaya kumari**
, and C. K. Mahadevan***
*
Department of Physics, Lekshmipuram college of Arts and Science, Neyyor – 629 802, India
**
Department of Physics, Sree Ayappa College for Women, Chunkankadai – 629 801, India
***
Department of Physics, S.T. Hindu college, Nagercoil – 629 002, India
ABSTRACT
Mixed crystals of L-Histidine Hydrochloride-bromide (abbreviated as LHC-LHB), semi organic nonlinear
optical (NLO) materials, have been successfully grown by the slow solvent evaporation technique at room
temperature. Transparent crystals were obtained over a period of 25 days. The ten grown crystals were
characterized structurally, optically, thermally, mechanically and electrically. Lattice parameters of the grown
crystals were determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. UV–Vis-NIR spectra were recorded to
estimate the UV cut-off wavelength and transmission range. Second harmonic generation study confirms the
NLO property. Thermal stability and decomposition of the crystals have been studied by TG/DTA analysis.
Micro hardness measurement indicates that all the crystals grown exhibit normal indentation size effect. The
frequency and temperature dependence of dielectric constant (εr), dielectric loss (tan δ) and AC conductivity (ζac)
were also studied. Photoconductivity measurement was also carried out to.
Keywords - Mixed crystals, Crystal growth, SXRD analysis, UV-Vis-NIR spectra, Thermal analysis,
Photoconductivity, Dielectric properties.
I. INTRODUCTION
Semiorganic nonlinear optical (NLO)
materials have been investigated due to their
widespread industrial potential applications in the
field of optoelectronics, photonics,
telecommunication, optical computing, optical
storage and optical information process [1].
Nowadays organic and inorganic materials are being
replaced by semi organics. They share the properties
of both organic and inorganic materials. The approach
of combining the high nonlinear optical materials of
the organic molecules with physical properties of the
inorganics has been found to be overwhelmingly
successful in the recent search. Hence the recent
search is concentrated on semiorganic materials due
to their large nonlinearity, high resistance to laser
induced damage, low angular sensitivity and good
mechanical hardness [2,3]. These versatile behaviours
of amino acid based semiorganic crystal attract the
researchers.
There are several amino acids crystals that
seem to be promising material as a nonlinear optical
generator. Progress in these areas would be greatly
enhanced by the availability of materials compatible
with various device embodiments and having
sufficiently large NLO response. Hence, new types of
NLO materials have been built from organic–
inorganic complexes in which the high optical non-
linearity of a purely organic compound is combined
with the favourable mechanical and thermal
properties of inorganic materials. Complexes of
amino acids with inorganic acids and salts are
promising materials for optical second harmonic
generation (SHG), as they tend to combine the
advantages of the organic amino acid with that of the
inorganic acid. Naturally amino acids exhibit chiral
properties and crystallize in the non-centro symmetric
space group [4,5]. Amino acid has both a proton
donating carboxyl group (COO¯) and a proton
accepting amino group (NH3
+
)[6]. Hence the salts of
amino acids like L-arginine, L- histidine, L- alanine
have been studied for NLO application [7-11]. Semi
organic material such as L- histidine hydrochloride
monohydrate [LHHCl], L-histidine bromide (LHB),
L- valanine hydrochloride, L-arginine hydrochloride
are some suitable material for NLO application[12-
13].
L-argininium hydrochloride bromide
(LAHClBr) is one among the recently developed
amino acid crystals of the L-arginine family.
LAHClBr is a mixed crystal, with two different
anions in the crystal lattice. A mixed crystal can be
generally obtained by mixing two isomorphic
crystals. LAHCl and LAHBr are two ideal crystals
for the formation of mixed system, which satisfy all
the above conditions [14]. More recently, L-histidine
has been extensively studied because of the ability of
its imidazole moiety to act as a proton donor, a proton
acceptor and a nucleophilic agent [15]. In view of
this, several reports are available on individual single
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crystals of L-histidine hydrochloride(LHC) and L-
histidine hydrobromide(LHB). But, there is no report
available on the two component LHC-LHB mixed
single crystals. In the present investigation, mixed
LHC- LHB crystals with different ratios (a total of
ten crystals including the two end members) were
grown and characterized by SXRD, UV-Vis-NIR
spectral, TG-DTA, SHG, dielectric and
photoconductivity measurements. The results
obtained are reported herein and discussed.
II. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE
2.1 Growth of LHC-LHB single crystals
Analytical reagent (AR) grade L-histidine,
hydrochloric acid(HCl) and hydrobromic acid(HBr)
were used along with double distilled water for the
growth of sample crystals. Equimolar proportion of
L-histidine and acid(HClxBr1-x) were mixed and
stirred well for about three hours to reach
homogeneity. The resultant solution was filtered
twice and transferred to a beaker and allowed to
evaporation. A total of ten crystals were grown with x
having the values 0.0 (pure LHB), 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5,
0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0 (pure LHC). The
composition of the chemicals used for the synthesis of
different crystals for this study follows the chemical
equation(1)
C6H9N3O2+HClxBr(1-x)→C6H9N3O2HClxBr(1-X) .....(1)
Here, x is the molar concentration (< 1.0).
To ensure high purity, the material was purified by
successive crystallization. The super saturated
solutions of the above synthesised salt was prepared
and left for slow evaporation. Transparent good
quality crystals were grown in a period of about 25
days.
2.2 Characterization
Single crystal X-ray diffraction (SXRD)
analysis has been carried out by using an ENRAF
NONIUS CAD4 X-ray diffractometer with MoKα
(λ=0.7107 Ǻ) radiation to identify the crystal system
and to estimate the lattice parameters of the grown
crystals. UV-Vis-NIR spectra of crystal samples
were recorded in the wavelength region between 190
and 1100 nm by using a Shimadzu UV-1061 UV-Vis-
NIR Spectrophotometer. SHG efficiency of the
crystals was determined by the powder technique
developed by Kurtz and Perry [16] using a Q-
switched, mode locked Nd: YAG laser emitting 1.06
μm, 8 ns laser pulses with spot radius of 1 mm.
Thermogravimetric( TGA) and differential
thermal(DTA) analyses were carried out between 28
and 1000 °C at a heating rate of 15 °C/min using the
instrument NETZSCH STA 409C. Vickers hardness
measurements were carried out using a Leitz Wetzlar
Vickers microhardness tester. The photo and dark
currents were measured by using a picoammeter
(Keithley 485) for various applied electric fields
ranging from 0-1500 V/cm.
Dielectric measurements were made
following the methods adopted by Mahadevan and his
co-workers[17-19] at various temperatures ranging
from 40-90o
C with five different frequencies, viz.100
Hz, 1 kHz, 10 kHz, 100 kHz and 1 MHz using a
HIOKI 3532-50 LCR HITESTER . The observations
were made while cooling the sample. The dimensions
of the crystals were measured using a travelling
microscope. Air capacitance (Cair) was also measured.
The crystals were shaped and polished and the
opposite faces were coated with graphite to form a
good ohmic contact. The sample was mounted
between the silver electrodes and annealed at 90o
C for
about 30 min to homogenize the sample before
making observations.
As the crystal area was smaller than the plate
area of the cell, the real part of the dielectric constant
was estimated using Mahadevan’s relation[20-22]
ε' = [Aair/Acry][Ccry – (Cair (1-Acry/Aair))/Cair] ---- (2)
where Ccry is the capacitance with crystal (including
air), Cair is the capacitance of air,
Acry, is the area of the crystal touching the electrode
and Aair is the area of the electrode. The imaginary
part of the dielectric constant (ε'') was calculated with
the measured dielectric loss factor (tan δ) using the
relation
ε'' = ε’ tan δ ---------------------------------(3)
The AC electrical conductivity (ζac) was calculated
using the relation
ζac = εo ε ω tan δ -----------------------------(4)
Where εo is the permittivity of free space (8.85 x 10-12
C2
N-1
m-2
) and ω is the angular frequency (ω = 2πf ; f
is the frequency of the applied electric field).
III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
3.1 Crystals grown and lattice parameters
A photograph of the grown crystals is shown
in Fig. 1. The crystals formed are non-hygroscopic in
nature. Morphologies of the mixed crystals grown are
not very similar to that of pure LHC and LHB
crystals. However, it is found that all the crystals
grown are colourless and transparent. The grown
single crystals are represented as LHB, LHCB1,
LHCB2, LHCB3, LHCB4, LHCB5, LHCB6,
LHCB7, LHCB8 and LHC respectively when x = 0.0,
0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0. SXRD
analysis confirms that all the grown crystals belong to
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the orthorhombic crystal system with non-centro
symmetric space group of P212121 . The estimated
lattice parameters for the end members (LHC and
LHB) are found to be in good agreement with the
reported values [7, 23]. The unit cell dimensions
obtained by single crystal XRD study for the grown
crystals are given in Table 1. There is a slight
variation in the lattice parameters depending upon the
proportion of mixing indicating that the formation of
mixed crystals is proper. It may be the possibility of
lattice variation due to the mixing of chlorine and
bromine. However, the total crystal system and space
group were not changed from the original
orthorhombic system and P212121 space group.
3.2 Optical and mechanical properties
UV-Vis-NIR absorption spectrum gives
information about the structure of the molecule
because the absorption of UV and visible light
involves promotion of electrons in the ζ and π
orbitals from the ground state to higher states. Fig. 2
shows the UV-Vis-NIR absorption spectra observed
in the present study. All the grown crystals exhibit a
low UV cut-off wavelength below 300 nm (see Table
2) with very low absorption in the visible region
indicating that these crystals can be considered as
promising nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals.
The efficiency of second harmonic
generation (SHG) signals were obtained for all the
grown crystals with reference to KDP (53 mV). It is
observed that the SHG efficiency (see Table 2)
increases with increase in chlorine content and
maximum for x = 0.5 composition (LHCB4) and
thereafter decreases. This may be attributed to the
maximum entropy in the intermediate composition.
Fig. 1 Photograph of grown single crystals (a) LHC, (b) LHB, (c) LHCB1, (d) LHCB2, (e) LHCB3, (f)
LHCB4, (g) LHCB5, (h) LHCB6, (i) LHCB7 and (j) LHCB8
Table 1 : The observed lattice parameters for the crystals grown. The values available in the literature for the
end members are also given for comparison
Crystal Unit cell dimensions V(Å)3
==
(degrees)
a(Å) b(Å) c(Å)
LHB
Reported[7] 7.053 9.0409 15.2758 974.067 90
Present study 7.023 9.137 15.132 971.007 90
LHCB1 7.032 9.131 15.127 971.2924 90
LHCB2 7.019 9.148 15.178 974.5765 90
LHCB3 7.009 9.134 15.201 973.1712 90
LHCB4 6.8685 8.9392 15.3289 941.18 90
LHCB5 6.857 8.934 15.315 938.2036 90
LHCB6 6.83 8.875 15.304 927.6711 90
LHCB7 6.826 8.867 15.29 925.4447 90
LHCB8 6.819 8.841 15.27 920.5791 90
LHC
Present study 6.82 8.813 15.26 917.19 90
Reported[23] 6.846 8.921 15.301 934.48 90
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Fig. 2 UV-Vis-NIR absorption spectra observed for the grown crystals
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Hardness is a measure of materials resistance
to localized plastic deformation. It plays a key role in
device fabrication. The variation of Vickers hardness
Number (VHN) with applied load along (0 0 1) plane
observed for all the grown crystals is shown in Fig. 3.
Fig. 3: Observed variation of Vickers hardness
number with applied load along (0 0 1) plane
The plots indicate that the hardness
decreases with increasing load. However, the
hardness depends nonlinearly with the composition.
Table 2 Absorption edges, SHG efficiencies and work
hardening coefficients (n) observed for the grown
crystals
Crystal Absorption
edge (nm)
SHG
efficiency (in
KDP units)
n
Pure LHB 240 1.22 1.55
LHCB1 270 1.71 1.58
LHCB2 290 1.75 1.59
LHCB3 250 2.46 1.616
LHCB4 260 3.53 1.657
LHCB5 270 3.31 1.557
LHCB6 280 3.24 1.597
LHCB7 240 2.89 1.617
LHCB8 270 2.93 1.635
Pure LHC 280 3.14 1.62
The work hardening coefficients (n) (see
Table 2) were estimated from the slopes of the best-
fitted straight line plots of log p versus log d (not
shown here). P is the load applied and d is the
diagonal length of the indentation made on the crystal
surface. According to Onitsch [24], if n > 2, the
microhardness number HV increases with increasing
load and if n < 2, HV decreases with increasing load.
Hence the experiment results observed in the present
study follow the normal indentation size effect trend.
3.3 Thermal properties
The TG-DTA traces of the grown crystals
are shown in Fig. 4. The thermograms of all the
grown crystals appear almost similar with three stages
of decompositions between 130 and 410 o
C followed
by four stages of weight loss.
Fig. 4(a) shows the TGA and DTA
thermograms of LHB crystal indicating the four
stages of weight loss: the first one at 138° C and the
second at 249°C, the third at 347°C and the fourth at
397°C. The total weight loss of these states
corresponds to 58%. Hence it is assigned to
decomposition stage of LHB crystal. The resulting
residue gives a weight loss for a wider range of
temperature between 600 and 750 °C. The total
weight loss of this stage is found to be 38 %. As the
total weight loss in the entire temperature range
considered corresponds to 100%, no residue is
observed. There is a sharp weight loss at 148 °C due
to loss of lattice water. There are sharp endothermic
peaks at 148, 257 and 342 °C and all of these coincide
with the decompositions shown in the TGA trace. Fig.
4(j) shows the TGA and DTA thermograms of LHC
crystal which indicates the four stages of weight loss.
The first stage between 194 and 298°C with a total
weight loss of 18% is assigned to the decomposition
of LHC. There is a sharp endothermic peak at 198o
C.
It coincides with the first stage of weight loss in the
TGA trace. There is one more sharp endothermic
peak at 301 C. This corresponds to the second stage
of weight loss in the TGA trace (298 o
C). It is evident
that the decomposition of the compound is taking
place in four different stages.
The TGA and DTA traces of mixed crystals
appear to be similar to that of end member crystals.
The TGA curves indicate a major weight loss starting
at about 145o
C and ending at about
186o
C due to elimination of volatile substances
probably carbon dioxide, ammonia and oxides of
chlorine. Since this temperature is beyond 100 o
C,
there is no evidence for any entrapped water in the
crystal lattice or any physically adsorbed water on the
surface of the crystal.
The thermal stability is found to gradually
increase with increasing chlorine concentration (138,
145, 151, 157, 161, 169, 175, 180, 186 and 194 o
C
respectively when x = 0.0, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7,
0.8, 0.9 and 1.0). The decomposition temperature is
also shifted to higher value as a result of chlorine
concentration. The results obtained indicate that these
crystals are thermally stable at least up to 138 o
C and
establish their suitability to withstand high
temperatures in laser experiments.
3.4 Dielectric properties
Studies on the temperature and frequency
dependences of dielectric parameters, viz. dielectric
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constant, dielectric loss factor and AC electrical
conductivity unveil useful information about
structural changes, defect behaviour, and transport
Fig. 4 TGA and DTA curves of pure LHC,LHB and mixed LHC-LHB single crystals
Table 3 AC Activation Energies Observed for the grown crystals
Crystal
AC activation energy ( eV)
f=100 Hz f= 1 kHz f = 10 kHz f =100 kHz f = 1 MHz
LHC 0.181 0.2233 0.2623 0.2805 0.2184
LHB 0.210 0.226 0.276 0.365 0.364
LHCB1 0.287 0.244 0.203 0.277 0.218
LHCB2 0.296 0.260 0.238 0.274 0.214
LHCB3 0.223 0.178 0.246 0.233 0.205
LHCB4 0.273 0.264 0.284 0.395 0.313
LHCB5 0.197 0.242 0.162 0.232 0.164
LHCB6 0.224 0.230 0.278 0.410 0.186
LHCB7 0.403 0.306 0.295 0.258 0.171
LHCB8 0.309 0.303 0.372 0.382 0.194
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Fig. 5 : Dielectric constants observed for the grown crystals
Fig. 6 : Temperature Dependence of Dielectric loss for pure LHC, LHB and mixed LHC-LHB single crystals
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Fig. 7 The AC Electrical conductivities for pure LHC, LHB and mixed LHC-LHB single crystals
phenomenon. Fig.s 5-7 show the temperature and
frequency dependences of dielectric parameters
observed for the LHC-LHB crystals. These plots
exemplify the fact that the dielectric constant and the
dielectric loss are both inversely proportional to the
frequency and directly proportional to the
temperature. The AC conductivity is directly
proportional to both frequency and temperature. This
is a normal dielectric behaviour [25]. Dielectric
properties are correlated with the electro-optic
property of the crystals [26]. The higher values of
dielectric loss (tan δ) and dielectric constant observed
at lower frequencies may be attributed to space
charge polarization owing to charged lattice defects
[27]. The considerable low value of dielectric
constants observed for the grown crystals is important
for extending the material applications towards
photonic, electro-optic and NLO devices. Moreover,
the low dielectric losses observed indicate that the
crystals grown in the present study are of good
quality. The AC conductivity plots indicate a typical
behaviour of most of the solid samples. Plots between
ln (ζac) and 1000/T (not shown here) were found to be
very nearly linear. Activation energies were estimated
using the slopes of these plots; [E=-(slope) k ×1000].
The observed activation energies are provided in
Table 3. The low activation energies observed in the
temperature range considered indicate the presence of
oxygen vacancies in the crystals. All dielectric loss
factor, AC electrical conductivity and activation
energy are found to vary nonlinearly with the
composition which may be due to the random
disturbance in the hydrogen bonding system due to
mixing in the mixed crystals considered in the present
study. The conduction mechanism can be established
as due to protonic transport as in the case of
potassium di-hydrogen orthophosphate (KDP) [21].
Also, the temperature dependence of AC electrical
conductivity and dielectric constant can be explained
as due to the temperature dependence of protonic
movement and ionic polarizability respectively.
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Fig. 8 Results of Photoconductivity measurements
3.5 Photoconductivities
The observed variation of photo current (Iph)
and dark current (Id) with applied field is shown in
Fig. 8. Both the photo and dark currents observed for
all the grown crystals increase almost linearly with
the applied field. It is observed that the dark current
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is less than the photo current indicating that all the
grown crystals exhibit positive photoconductivity. In
general, positive photoconductivity is attributed to
generation of mobile charge carriers caused by the
absorption of photons [28].
IV. CONCLUSION
Single crystals of pure LHC, pure LHB and
mixed LHC-LHB(with eight compositions) have
been successfully grown by the slow evaporation
technique and characterised structurally, optically,
mechanically and electrically. The grown crystals
are optically transparent with well defined
morphologies. SXRD analysis confirms that all the
ten grown crystals belong to orthorhombic crystal
system with space group P212121. The low UV cut-off
wavelengths observed (below 300 nm) indicate that
these crystals can be considered as promising
candidates for NLO applications. The powder SHG
analysis reveals that the efficiency of LHCB4
material is 3.53 times that of KDP. The
microhardness measurement indicates that the grown
crystals are sufficiently hard and exhibit normal size
indentation effect. All the grown crystals are found to
be thermally stable at least up to 138 °C. A result of
dielectric measurement indicates a normal dielectric
behaviour. The observed dielectric constants and AC
electrical conductivities have been understood as due
to ionic polarizability and protonic transport. The
photoconductivity study ascertains the positive
photoconducting nature of all the grown crystals. The
present study, in effect, indicates the possibility of
forming LHC-LHB mixed crystals which can be
considered as potential materials for photonic,
electro-optic and SHG device applications.
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  • 1. J. Suja Rani et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 3( Version 1), March 2014, pp.741-751 www.ijera.com 741 | P a g e Growth and Optical, Thermal and Electrical Characterization of LHC-LHB Mixed Crystals J. Suja Rani* , K. Jaya kumari** , and C. K. Mahadevan*** * Department of Physics, Lekshmipuram college of Arts and Science, Neyyor – 629 802, India ** Department of Physics, Sree Ayappa College for Women, Chunkankadai – 629 801, India *** Department of Physics, S.T. Hindu college, Nagercoil – 629 002, India ABSTRACT Mixed crystals of L-Histidine Hydrochloride-bromide (abbreviated as LHC-LHB), semi organic nonlinear optical (NLO) materials, have been successfully grown by the slow solvent evaporation technique at room temperature. Transparent crystals were obtained over a period of 25 days. The ten grown crystals were characterized structurally, optically, thermally, mechanically and electrically. Lattice parameters of the grown crystals were determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. UV–Vis-NIR spectra were recorded to estimate the UV cut-off wavelength and transmission range. Second harmonic generation study confirms the NLO property. Thermal stability and decomposition of the crystals have been studied by TG/DTA analysis. Micro hardness measurement indicates that all the crystals grown exhibit normal indentation size effect. The frequency and temperature dependence of dielectric constant (εr), dielectric loss (tan δ) and AC conductivity (ζac) were also studied. Photoconductivity measurement was also carried out to. Keywords - Mixed crystals, Crystal growth, SXRD analysis, UV-Vis-NIR spectra, Thermal analysis, Photoconductivity, Dielectric properties. I. INTRODUCTION Semiorganic nonlinear optical (NLO) materials have been investigated due to their widespread industrial potential applications in the field of optoelectronics, photonics, telecommunication, optical computing, optical storage and optical information process [1]. Nowadays organic and inorganic materials are being replaced by semi organics. They share the properties of both organic and inorganic materials. The approach of combining the high nonlinear optical materials of the organic molecules with physical properties of the inorganics has been found to be overwhelmingly successful in the recent search. Hence the recent search is concentrated on semiorganic materials due to their large nonlinearity, high resistance to laser induced damage, low angular sensitivity and good mechanical hardness [2,3]. These versatile behaviours of amino acid based semiorganic crystal attract the researchers. There are several amino acids crystals that seem to be promising material as a nonlinear optical generator. Progress in these areas would be greatly enhanced by the availability of materials compatible with various device embodiments and having sufficiently large NLO response. Hence, new types of NLO materials have been built from organic– inorganic complexes in which the high optical non- linearity of a purely organic compound is combined with the favourable mechanical and thermal properties of inorganic materials. Complexes of amino acids with inorganic acids and salts are promising materials for optical second harmonic generation (SHG), as they tend to combine the advantages of the organic amino acid with that of the inorganic acid. Naturally amino acids exhibit chiral properties and crystallize in the non-centro symmetric space group [4,5]. Amino acid has both a proton donating carboxyl group (COO¯) and a proton accepting amino group (NH3 + )[6]. Hence the salts of amino acids like L-arginine, L- histidine, L- alanine have been studied for NLO application [7-11]. Semi organic material such as L- histidine hydrochloride monohydrate [LHHCl], L-histidine bromide (LHB), L- valanine hydrochloride, L-arginine hydrochloride are some suitable material for NLO application[12- 13]. L-argininium hydrochloride bromide (LAHClBr) is one among the recently developed amino acid crystals of the L-arginine family. LAHClBr is a mixed crystal, with two different anions in the crystal lattice. A mixed crystal can be generally obtained by mixing two isomorphic crystals. LAHCl and LAHBr are two ideal crystals for the formation of mixed system, which satisfy all the above conditions [14]. More recently, L-histidine has been extensively studied because of the ability of its imidazole moiety to act as a proton donor, a proton acceptor and a nucleophilic agent [15]. In view of this, several reports are available on individual single RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS
  • 2. J. Suja Rani et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 3( Version 1), March 2014, pp.741-751 www.ijera.com 742 | P a g e crystals of L-histidine hydrochloride(LHC) and L- histidine hydrobromide(LHB). But, there is no report available on the two component LHC-LHB mixed single crystals. In the present investigation, mixed LHC- LHB crystals with different ratios (a total of ten crystals including the two end members) were grown and characterized by SXRD, UV-Vis-NIR spectral, TG-DTA, SHG, dielectric and photoconductivity measurements. The results obtained are reported herein and discussed. II. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE 2.1 Growth of LHC-LHB single crystals Analytical reagent (AR) grade L-histidine, hydrochloric acid(HCl) and hydrobromic acid(HBr) were used along with double distilled water for the growth of sample crystals. Equimolar proportion of L-histidine and acid(HClxBr1-x) were mixed and stirred well for about three hours to reach homogeneity. The resultant solution was filtered twice and transferred to a beaker and allowed to evaporation. A total of ten crystals were grown with x having the values 0.0 (pure LHB), 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0 (pure LHC). The composition of the chemicals used for the synthesis of different crystals for this study follows the chemical equation(1) C6H9N3O2+HClxBr(1-x)→C6H9N3O2HClxBr(1-X) .....(1) Here, x is the molar concentration (< 1.0). To ensure high purity, the material was purified by successive crystallization. The super saturated solutions of the above synthesised salt was prepared and left for slow evaporation. Transparent good quality crystals were grown in a period of about 25 days. 2.2 Characterization Single crystal X-ray diffraction (SXRD) analysis has been carried out by using an ENRAF NONIUS CAD4 X-ray diffractometer with MoKα (λ=0.7107 Ǻ) radiation to identify the crystal system and to estimate the lattice parameters of the grown crystals. UV-Vis-NIR spectra of crystal samples were recorded in the wavelength region between 190 and 1100 nm by using a Shimadzu UV-1061 UV-Vis- NIR Spectrophotometer. SHG efficiency of the crystals was determined by the powder technique developed by Kurtz and Perry [16] using a Q- switched, mode locked Nd: YAG laser emitting 1.06 μm, 8 ns laser pulses with spot radius of 1 mm. Thermogravimetric( TGA) and differential thermal(DTA) analyses were carried out between 28 and 1000 °C at a heating rate of 15 °C/min using the instrument NETZSCH STA 409C. Vickers hardness measurements were carried out using a Leitz Wetzlar Vickers microhardness tester. The photo and dark currents were measured by using a picoammeter (Keithley 485) for various applied electric fields ranging from 0-1500 V/cm. Dielectric measurements were made following the methods adopted by Mahadevan and his co-workers[17-19] at various temperatures ranging from 40-90o C with five different frequencies, viz.100 Hz, 1 kHz, 10 kHz, 100 kHz and 1 MHz using a HIOKI 3532-50 LCR HITESTER . The observations were made while cooling the sample. The dimensions of the crystals were measured using a travelling microscope. Air capacitance (Cair) was also measured. The crystals were shaped and polished and the opposite faces were coated with graphite to form a good ohmic contact. The sample was mounted between the silver electrodes and annealed at 90o C for about 30 min to homogenize the sample before making observations. As the crystal area was smaller than the plate area of the cell, the real part of the dielectric constant was estimated using Mahadevan’s relation[20-22] ε' = [Aair/Acry][Ccry – (Cair (1-Acry/Aair))/Cair] ---- (2) where Ccry is the capacitance with crystal (including air), Cair is the capacitance of air, Acry, is the area of the crystal touching the electrode and Aair is the area of the electrode. The imaginary part of the dielectric constant (ε'') was calculated with the measured dielectric loss factor (tan δ) using the relation ε'' = ε’ tan δ ---------------------------------(3) The AC electrical conductivity (ζac) was calculated using the relation ζac = εo ε ω tan δ -----------------------------(4) Where εo is the permittivity of free space (8.85 x 10-12 C2 N-1 m-2 ) and ω is the angular frequency (ω = 2πf ; f is the frequency of the applied electric field). III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 3.1 Crystals grown and lattice parameters A photograph of the grown crystals is shown in Fig. 1. The crystals formed are non-hygroscopic in nature. Morphologies of the mixed crystals grown are not very similar to that of pure LHC and LHB crystals. However, it is found that all the crystals grown are colourless and transparent. The grown single crystals are represented as LHB, LHCB1, LHCB2, LHCB3, LHCB4, LHCB5, LHCB6, LHCB7, LHCB8 and LHC respectively when x = 0.0, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0. SXRD analysis confirms that all the grown crystals belong to
  • 3. J. Suja Rani et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 3( Version 1), March 2014, pp.741-751 www.ijera.com 743 | P a g e the orthorhombic crystal system with non-centro symmetric space group of P212121 . The estimated lattice parameters for the end members (LHC and LHB) are found to be in good agreement with the reported values [7, 23]. The unit cell dimensions obtained by single crystal XRD study for the grown crystals are given in Table 1. There is a slight variation in the lattice parameters depending upon the proportion of mixing indicating that the formation of mixed crystals is proper. It may be the possibility of lattice variation due to the mixing of chlorine and bromine. However, the total crystal system and space group were not changed from the original orthorhombic system and P212121 space group. 3.2 Optical and mechanical properties UV-Vis-NIR absorption spectrum gives information about the structure of the molecule because the absorption of UV and visible light involves promotion of electrons in the ζ and π orbitals from the ground state to higher states. Fig. 2 shows the UV-Vis-NIR absorption spectra observed in the present study. All the grown crystals exhibit a low UV cut-off wavelength below 300 nm (see Table 2) with very low absorption in the visible region indicating that these crystals can be considered as promising nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals. The efficiency of second harmonic generation (SHG) signals were obtained for all the grown crystals with reference to KDP (53 mV). It is observed that the SHG efficiency (see Table 2) increases with increase in chlorine content and maximum for x = 0.5 composition (LHCB4) and thereafter decreases. This may be attributed to the maximum entropy in the intermediate composition. Fig. 1 Photograph of grown single crystals (a) LHC, (b) LHB, (c) LHCB1, (d) LHCB2, (e) LHCB3, (f) LHCB4, (g) LHCB5, (h) LHCB6, (i) LHCB7 and (j) LHCB8 Table 1 : The observed lattice parameters for the crystals grown. The values available in the literature for the end members are also given for comparison Crystal Unit cell dimensions V(Å)3 == (degrees) a(Å) b(Å) c(Å) LHB Reported[7] 7.053 9.0409 15.2758 974.067 90 Present study 7.023 9.137 15.132 971.007 90 LHCB1 7.032 9.131 15.127 971.2924 90 LHCB2 7.019 9.148 15.178 974.5765 90 LHCB3 7.009 9.134 15.201 973.1712 90 LHCB4 6.8685 8.9392 15.3289 941.18 90 LHCB5 6.857 8.934 15.315 938.2036 90 LHCB6 6.83 8.875 15.304 927.6711 90 LHCB7 6.826 8.867 15.29 925.4447 90 LHCB8 6.819 8.841 15.27 920.5791 90 LHC Present study 6.82 8.813 15.26 917.19 90 Reported[23] 6.846 8.921 15.301 934.48 90
  • 4. J. Suja Rani et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 3( Version 1), March 2014, pp.741-751 www.ijera.com 744 | P a g e Fig. 2 UV-Vis-NIR absorption spectra observed for the grown crystals
  • 5. J. Suja Rani et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 3( Version 1), March 2014, pp.741-751 www.ijera.com 745 | P a g e Hardness is a measure of materials resistance to localized plastic deformation. It plays a key role in device fabrication. The variation of Vickers hardness Number (VHN) with applied load along (0 0 1) plane observed for all the grown crystals is shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 3: Observed variation of Vickers hardness number with applied load along (0 0 1) plane The plots indicate that the hardness decreases with increasing load. However, the hardness depends nonlinearly with the composition. Table 2 Absorption edges, SHG efficiencies and work hardening coefficients (n) observed for the grown crystals Crystal Absorption edge (nm) SHG efficiency (in KDP units) n Pure LHB 240 1.22 1.55 LHCB1 270 1.71 1.58 LHCB2 290 1.75 1.59 LHCB3 250 2.46 1.616 LHCB4 260 3.53 1.657 LHCB5 270 3.31 1.557 LHCB6 280 3.24 1.597 LHCB7 240 2.89 1.617 LHCB8 270 2.93 1.635 Pure LHC 280 3.14 1.62 The work hardening coefficients (n) (see Table 2) were estimated from the slopes of the best- fitted straight line plots of log p versus log d (not shown here). P is the load applied and d is the diagonal length of the indentation made on the crystal surface. According to Onitsch [24], if n > 2, the microhardness number HV increases with increasing load and if n < 2, HV decreases with increasing load. Hence the experiment results observed in the present study follow the normal indentation size effect trend. 3.3 Thermal properties The TG-DTA traces of the grown crystals are shown in Fig. 4. The thermograms of all the grown crystals appear almost similar with three stages of decompositions between 130 and 410 o C followed by four stages of weight loss. Fig. 4(a) shows the TGA and DTA thermograms of LHB crystal indicating the four stages of weight loss: the first one at 138° C and the second at 249°C, the third at 347°C and the fourth at 397°C. The total weight loss of these states corresponds to 58%. Hence it is assigned to decomposition stage of LHB crystal. The resulting residue gives a weight loss for a wider range of temperature between 600 and 750 °C. The total weight loss of this stage is found to be 38 %. As the total weight loss in the entire temperature range considered corresponds to 100%, no residue is observed. There is a sharp weight loss at 148 °C due to loss of lattice water. There are sharp endothermic peaks at 148, 257 and 342 °C and all of these coincide with the decompositions shown in the TGA trace. Fig. 4(j) shows the TGA and DTA thermograms of LHC crystal which indicates the four stages of weight loss. The first stage between 194 and 298°C with a total weight loss of 18% is assigned to the decomposition of LHC. There is a sharp endothermic peak at 198o C. It coincides with the first stage of weight loss in the TGA trace. There is one more sharp endothermic peak at 301 C. This corresponds to the second stage of weight loss in the TGA trace (298 o C). It is evident that the decomposition of the compound is taking place in four different stages. The TGA and DTA traces of mixed crystals appear to be similar to that of end member crystals. The TGA curves indicate a major weight loss starting at about 145o C and ending at about 186o C due to elimination of volatile substances probably carbon dioxide, ammonia and oxides of chlorine. Since this temperature is beyond 100 o C, there is no evidence for any entrapped water in the crystal lattice or any physically adsorbed water on the surface of the crystal. The thermal stability is found to gradually increase with increasing chlorine concentration (138, 145, 151, 157, 161, 169, 175, 180, 186 and 194 o C respectively when x = 0.0, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9 and 1.0). The decomposition temperature is also shifted to higher value as a result of chlorine concentration. The results obtained indicate that these crystals are thermally stable at least up to 138 o C and establish their suitability to withstand high temperatures in laser experiments. 3.4 Dielectric properties Studies on the temperature and frequency dependences of dielectric parameters, viz. dielectric
  • 6. J. Suja Rani et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 3( Version 1), March 2014, pp.741-751 www.ijera.com 746 | P a g e constant, dielectric loss factor and AC electrical conductivity unveil useful information about structural changes, defect behaviour, and transport Fig. 4 TGA and DTA curves of pure LHC,LHB and mixed LHC-LHB single crystals Table 3 AC Activation Energies Observed for the grown crystals Crystal AC activation energy ( eV) f=100 Hz f= 1 kHz f = 10 kHz f =100 kHz f = 1 MHz LHC 0.181 0.2233 0.2623 0.2805 0.2184 LHB 0.210 0.226 0.276 0.365 0.364 LHCB1 0.287 0.244 0.203 0.277 0.218 LHCB2 0.296 0.260 0.238 0.274 0.214 LHCB3 0.223 0.178 0.246 0.233 0.205 LHCB4 0.273 0.264 0.284 0.395 0.313 LHCB5 0.197 0.242 0.162 0.232 0.164 LHCB6 0.224 0.230 0.278 0.410 0.186 LHCB7 0.403 0.306 0.295 0.258 0.171 LHCB8 0.309 0.303 0.372 0.382 0.194
  • 7. J. Suja Rani et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 3( Version 1), March 2014, pp.741-751 www.ijera.com 747 | P a g e Fig. 5 : Dielectric constants observed for the grown crystals Fig. 6 : Temperature Dependence of Dielectric loss for pure LHC, LHB and mixed LHC-LHB single crystals
  • 8. J. Suja Rani et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 3( Version 1), March 2014, pp.741-751 www.ijera.com 748 | P a g e Fig. 7 The AC Electrical conductivities for pure LHC, LHB and mixed LHC-LHB single crystals phenomenon. Fig.s 5-7 show the temperature and frequency dependences of dielectric parameters observed for the LHC-LHB crystals. These plots exemplify the fact that the dielectric constant and the dielectric loss are both inversely proportional to the frequency and directly proportional to the temperature. The AC conductivity is directly proportional to both frequency and temperature. This is a normal dielectric behaviour [25]. Dielectric properties are correlated with the electro-optic property of the crystals [26]. The higher values of dielectric loss (tan δ) and dielectric constant observed at lower frequencies may be attributed to space charge polarization owing to charged lattice defects [27]. The considerable low value of dielectric constants observed for the grown crystals is important for extending the material applications towards photonic, electro-optic and NLO devices. Moreover, the low dielectric losses observed indicate that the crystals grown in the present study are of good quality. The AC conductivity plots indicate a typical behaviour of most of the solid samples. Plots between ln (ζac) and 1000/T (not shown here) were found to be very nearly linear. Activation energies were estimated using the slopes of these plots; [E=-(slope) k ×1000]. The observed activation energies are provided in Table 3. The low activation energies observed in the temperature range considered indicate the presence of oxygen vacancies in the crystals. All dielectric loss factor, AC electrical conductivity and activation energy are found to vary nonlinearly with the composition which may be due to the random disturbance in the hydrogen bonding system due to mixing in the mixed crystals considered in the present study. The conduction mechanism can be established as due to protonic transport as in the case of potassium di-hydrogen orthophosphate (KDP) [21]. Also, the temperature dependence of AC electrical conductivity and dielectric constant can be explained as due to the temperature dependence of protonic movement and ionic polarizability respectively.
  • 9. J. Suja Rani et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 3( Version 1), March 2014, pp.741-751 www.ijera.com 749 | P a g e Fig. 8 Results of Photoconductivity measurements 3.5 Photoconductivities The observed variation of photo current (Iph) and dark current (Id) with applied field is shown in Fig. 8. Both the photo and dark currents observed for all the grown crystals increase almost linearly with the applied field. It is observed that the dark current
  • 10. J. Suja Rani et al Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4, Issue 3( Version 1), March 2014, pp.741-751 www.ijera.com 750 | P a g e is less than the photo current indicating that all the grown crystals exhibit positive photoconductivity. In general, positive photoconductivity is attributed to generation of mobile charge carriers caused by the absorption of photons [28]. IV. CONCLUSION Single crystals of pure LHC, pure LHB and mixed LHC-LHB(with eight compositions) have been successfully grown by the slow evaporation technique and characterised structurally, optically, mechanically and electrically. The grown crystals are optically transparent with well defined morphologies. SXRD analysis confirms that all the ten grown crystals belong to orthorhombic crystal system with space group P212121. The low UV cut-off wavelengths observed (below 300 nm) indicate that these crystals can be considered as promising candidates for NLO applications. The powder SHG analysis reveals that the efficiency of LHCB4 material is 3.53 times that of KDP. The microhardness measurement indicates that the grown crystals are sufficiently hard and exhibit normal size indentation effect. All the grown crystals are found to be thermally stable at least up to 138 °C. A result of dielectric measurement indicates a normal dielectric behaviour. The observed dielectric constants and AC electrical conductivities have been understood as due to ionic polarizability and protonic transport. The photoconductivity study ascertains the positive photoconducting nature of all the grown crystals. The present study, in effect, indicates the possibility of forming LHC-LHB mixed crystals which can be considered as potential materials for photonic, electro-optic and SHG device applications. REFERENCES [1] P.N. Prasad, D.J. Williams, Introduction to nonlinear optical effects in molecules and polymers, John Wiley Interscience, New York.(1991). [2] S.P. Velsko, Laser program Annual Report, ,Lawrence UCRL-JC-105000 (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.1990) [3] L.F.Warren, proceedings of the Fourth International SAMPE Electronics Conference, (ed.) R.E.Allred, R.J.Martinez and W.D.Wischmann (society for the advancement of material and process engineering, Covina, ca., 4(1990)388.] [4] Bhat M. N. and Dharmaprakash S. M., J. Cryst. Growth,Vol. 235,2002, pp. 511. [5] Bhat M. N. and Dharmaprakash S. M. ’Growth of optical nonlinear γ- glysine crystals’ J. Cryst. Growth Vol.236,2002, pp. 376-380. [6] Petrosyan H.A, Karapetyan H.A., Antipin M. Yu., Petrosyan A.M.,s’Nonlinear optical crystals of L- histidine salts’ J. Cryst. Growth, Vol. 275,2005, pp 1919. [7] Ittyachan R. and Sagayaraj P., ’Growth and Characterization of a new promising NLO L- histidine bromide crystal’ J. Cryst. Growth, Vol. 249,2003, pp.557-560. [8] Rajendran K. V., Jayaraman D., Jayavel R., and Ramasamy P.,s‘Growth and characterization of L- HFB nonlinear optical crystal; L- histidinium bromide’. J. Cryst. Growth, Vol. 255,2003(b), pp 361-368. [9] Ittyachan R. and Sagayaraj P.,s’Growth and characterization of L-arginine diphosphate crystals’J. Cryst. Growth, Vol. 243,2002,pp. 356. [10] Rajendran K. V., Jayaraman D., Jayavel R., and Ramasamy P.,’Effect of pH on the growth and characterization of L-HFB single crystal’ J. Cryst. Growth, Vol. 254, 2003(a)pp. 461-468. [11] Dhanuskodi S. and Vasantha K., ‘Structurall. Thermal and optical characterizations of NLO material: L-alaninium oxlate’. Cryst. Res. Technol.Vol. 39, 2004, pp. 259-265. [12] PanduranganAnandan, RamasamyJayavel,’Crystal growth and characterization of semiorganic single crystals of L-histidine family for NLO applications’ J. Cryst. Growth, Vol. 322, 2011,pp 69-73. [13] Kirubavathi K., Selvaraju K., Valluvan R., Vijayan N., Kumararaman S.,‘Synthesis, growth, strictira;, spectroscopic and optical studies of a new semiorganic nonlinear optical crystal L-valine hydrochloride’.ActaCryst A, Vol.69,2008, pp.1283-1286. [14] Tanusri Pal, TanusreeKar, Xin-Qiang Wang, Guang-Ying Zhou, Dong Wang, Xiu-Feng Cheng, Zhao-He Yang, ,’Growth and characterization of non linear optical material,LAHClBr- a new member of L-arginine halide family’. J. Crystal Growth Vol.235, 2002, pp.523-528. [15] Madden J.J, Edward L. McGandy, Nadrian C. Seeman, Acta (1972)Cryst B, 28, 2377. [16] Kurtz S.K., Perry T.T.,’A powder technique for the evaluation of nonlinear optical materials’, J. Appl. Phys, Vol.39,1968,pp. 3798-3813. [17] Manonmani N., Mahadevan C.K., Umayorubhagan V. Growth and studies of the new crystal formed with NaCl andCaCl2 , Mater.Manuf.Processes,22, 2007,388-392 [18] Priya M., Mahadevan C.K. Preparation and dielectric properties of oxide added NaCl-KCl polycrystals, Physica B,403, 2008,67-74 [19] Mahadevan C.K., Jayakumari K.(2008) Electrical measurements on multiphased (NaCl)x(KCl)y- x(KBr)1-y single crystals, Physica B,403, 2008,3990-3996
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