Structural, spectral, thermal, dielectric, mechanical and optical properties of urea l-alanine acetate single crystals

Physica B: Condensed Matter

Volumn 405, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2394-2400

  Jaikumar, D ^a   Kalainathan, S ^b   Bhagavannarayana, G ^c  

^a VOORHEES COLLEGE   (India)

^b VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Growth from solution; Microhardness; Nonlinear optical materials; Organic compounds; Thermal analysis; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

1064 NM; CELL PARAMETER; COMPOUND FORMATION; CRYSTALLINE PERFECTION; DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS; FT-IR SPECTRUM; GROWN CRYSTALS; GROWTH FROM SOLUTION; H NMR SPECTRA; HIGH-RESOLUTION X-RAY DIFFRACTION; KURTZ POWDER TECHNIQUE; L-ALANINE; LOW DIELECTRIC LOSS; MASS SPECTRA; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; METASTABLE ZONE WIDTH; MOLAR RATIO; ND-YAG LASERS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL MATERIAL; NONLINEAR OPTICAL MATERIALS; ORGANIC NONLINEAR OPTICAL CRYSTALS; ORTHORHOMBIC SYSTEMS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SINGLE CRYSTAL XRD; SLOW COOLING; SOLUTION GROWTH; SPACE GROUPS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL STRENGTH; VICKERS MICROHARDNESS TESTS; VISIBLE REGION;

DIELECTRIC LOSSES; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); HARMONIC GENERATION; LIGHT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; METABOLISM; MICROHARDNESS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMOANALYSIS; UREA; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 77950595311     PISSN: 09214526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2010.02.053     Document Type: Article

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