Growth and characterisation of L-arginine phosphate family crystals

Atomic force microscopy study on crystal growth of Cu2+-doped L-arginine phosphate monohydrate crystals

“…1 were easy to detect on the {1 0 0} faces of the Cu 2+ -doped LAP crystals. From the section analysis, one can see that the heights of the sub-steps are in the range of 0.45-0.60 nm, which is corresponding to half of the unit cell parameter (a=1.092 nm) within the experimental error [8]. The sub-steps are regularly spaced.…”

“…Atomic (AFM) is an excellent and unique approach for observing crystal growth dynamics, imaging and measuring surface features as well as studying defect formations on a nanometer scale [11 (including its Refs. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]), 12,13]. In this work, we have observed the crystal growth morphology of the {1 0 0} faces of the Cu 2+ -doped LAP crystals.…”

“…Following the revealation of striking NLO properties of the LAP crystal, many LAP analogs have been discovered [4][5][6][7]. Metals doped of LAP are also researched [8][9][10]. Atomic (AFM) is an excellent and unique approach for observing crystal growth dynamics, imaging and measuring surface features as well as studying defect formations on a nanometer scale [11 (including its Refs.…”

Studies on the growth and characterization of l-argininium formate single crystals

“…This illustrates the absence of physically adsorbed or lattice water in the crystal. Hence, the compound is stable up to 200 C. The total weight loss corresponds to nearly 87% and the resulting residue (13%) is stable up to 800 C. The TGA of LAP and its analogs indicate that LAF is thermally more stable (200 C) than LAP (111 C), LASP (110 C) and LADP (173.9 C) [3][4][5][6][7].…”

Effect of rare-earth dopants on the growth and structural, optical, electrical and mechanical properties of l-arginine phosphate single crystals

“…Improved second harmonic generation efficiency has been observed for the sulphate-mixed LAP and its doped analogs [9]. It has been investigated that the growth of the LAP crystal along the c-axis is suppressed by Cu while it is enhanced by Mg doping [10]. EPR and optical absorption studies of VO 2+ and Cu 2+ doped LAP show that the crystal field around these doped ions has rhombic symmetry [11,12].…”