Growth of highly nonlinear optical organic crystal, 3-methyl-4-methoxy-4′-nitrostilbene (MMONS)

Growth of thin rubrene single crystals from 1-propanol solvent

“…There are many reports on high carrier mobilities in thin platelike crystals with molecularly flat surfaces grown by PVT [13,14]. It is widely known that solvent significantly influences the morphology of crystalline materials in the solution growth process [15,16]. We expected that alcohol solvents, in which rubrene is hardly soluble, may weakly interact with the growing surface, inducing the formation of the thin platelike crystals observed in PVT growth.…”

Growth and characterization of an efficient nonlinear optical D–π–A–π–D type chalcone single crystal

“…The crystals were found to be elongated along crystallographic c-direction due to comparatively higher growth rate along this direction. It is found that in polar crystals such as MMONS [14] and m-NA [15] the growth is inhibited along one of the directions of the polar axis by additives, impurity or solvent molecules. Such unidirectional growth is also observed in other polar organic crystals, such as NPP [16] and 2-cyclooctylamino-5-nitropyridine (COANP) [17].…”

2-[(E)-2-(3-Hydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl)ethenyl]-1-methylquinolinium 4-chlorobenzenesulfonate

“…Several organic compounds show non-linear optical (NLO) properties and are useful materials for applications in optical switching, optical communications, data storage and laser technology (Chemla & Zyss, 1987;Crasta et al, 2004;Feng et al, 2005;Hong et al, 2005;Williams, 1984). The second-order non-linear effect requires a non-centrosymmetric structure of the bulk materials.…”