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Potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) is a well known nonlinear optical (NLO) material with different applications. Since most of the amino acids exhibit NLO property, it is of interest to dope them in KDP. In the present study, amino acid L-arginine was doped in KDP. The doping of L-arginine was confirmed by FT-IR and paper chromatography. Thermogravimetry suggested that as the amount of doping increases the thermal stability decreases as well as the value of thermodynamic and kinetic parameters decreases. The second harmonic generation (SHG) efficiency of L-arginine doped KDP crystals was found to be increasing with doping concentration of L-arginine. The results are discussed here.
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Parikh, K.D., Dave, D.J., Parekh, B.B. et al. Thermal, FT-IR and SHG efficiency studies of L-arginine doped KDP crystals. Bull Mater Sci 30, 105–112 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12034-007-0019-4
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