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  • Elena Balashova
  • Aleksandr A. Levin
  • Valery Davydov
  • Alexander Smirnov
  • Anatoly Starukhin
  • Sergey Pavlov
  • Boris Krichevtsov
  • Andrey Zolotarev
  • Hongjun Zhang
  • Fangzhe Li
  • Hua Ke

Triglycine sulfate (TGS) single crystals doped with croconic acid (CA) were grown by evaporation from aqueous solutions. X-ray diffraction analysis shows a slight reduction in unit cell volume in TGS:CA compared to pure TGS crystals. The polarized Raman and near-infrared absorption spectra show that the positions of most lines resulting from inter-and intramolecular vibrations are in good agreement with those in spectra of undoped TGS crystals. The inclusion of CA in TGS is confirmed by the presence of bands characteristic of CA in the infrared-Fourier transform spectra. The ultraviolet-visible absorption spectra of TGS:CA are characterized by the presence of additional absorption bands (compared to the spectra of pure TGS) located in the transparent region of pure TGS. In the photon energy region 1.6–3.6 eV, a strong “green” luminescence band is present in TGS:CA upon excitation at l = 325 nm. The position of the emission band depends on the wavelength of the exciting light. Doping of TGS with CA causes pinning of domain walls, which is accompanied by a decrease in amplitude and frequency dispersion of the dielectric anomaly at the phase transition, a decrease in the switchable polarization and an increase in the coercive field of hysteresis loops.

Original languageEnglish
Article number679
JournalCrystals
Volume12
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2022

    Scopus subject areas

  • Chemical Engineering(all)
  • Materials Science(all)
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Inorganic Chemistry

    Research areas

  • croconic acid, crystal structure, dielectric properties, FTIR and Raman spectroscopy, photoluminescence, triglycine sulfate, UV-Vis absorption, XRD

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