<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The ferroelectric glycine phosphite single crystals have been grown from aqueous solution by both conventional and Sankaranarayanan-Ramasamy methods. The modified channelled spectrum method has been adopted for spectral dependence of optical birefringence studies over the wavelength range of 480–620 nm, which show that both the crystals exhibit relatively high birefringence values. The photoluminescence excitation studies were carried out for the grown crystals in a wide wavelength range between 300 nm and 600 nm at 224 K. The crystals were also subjected to scanning electron microscopy analysis in order to determine the ferroelectric domain pattern configuration.</p></abstract>

The ferroelectric glycine phosphite single crystals have been grown from aqueous solution by both conventional and Sankaranarayanan-Ramasamy methods. The modified channelled spectrum method has been adopted for spectral dependence of optical birefringence studies over the wavelength range of 480–620 nm, which show that both the crystals exhibit relatively high birefringence values. The photoluminescence excitation studies were carried out for the grown crystals in a wide wavelength range between 300 nm and 600 nm at 224 K. The crystals were also subjected to scanning electron microscopy analysis in order to determine the ferroelectric domain pattern configuration.

The birefringence spectroscopic studies on ferroelectric glycine phosphite (GPI) single crystals

Department of Physics, P.S.G. College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, 641 014, Tamil Nadu, India

Department of Physics, RVS college of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, 641 402, Tamil Nadu, India

Department of Physics, Karunya University, Coimbatore, 641 114, Tamil Nadu, India

Environmental Technology Division, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)-Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Adyar, Chennai, 600 020, India

Materials Science-Poland

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The ferroelectric glycine phosphite single crystals have been grown from aqueous solution by both conventional and Sankaranarayanan-Ramasamy methods. The...

The birefringence spectroscopic studies on ferroelectric glycine phosphite (GPI) single crystals

Published Online: Feb 09, 2013

Page range: 1 - 5

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s13536-012-0059-3

Keywords
crystal growth, birefringence, semi-organic materials, photoluminescence, SEM

© 2013 Wroclaw University of Technology

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The birefringence spectroscopic studies on ferroelectric glycine phosphite (GPI) single crystals

Published Online: Feb 09, 2013

Page range: 1 - 5

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s13536-012-0059-3

Keywordscrystal growth, birefringence, semi-organic materials, photoluminescence, SEM

© 2013 Wroclaw University of Technology

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
crystal growth, birefringence, semi-organic materials, photoluminescence, SEM