Difficulties in the growth and characterization of non-linear optical materials: A case study of salts of amino acids
- Author(s)
- Michel Fleck, A.M. Petrosyan
- Abstract
In the crystallographic literature, there is an ever-increasing number of publications on crystals that arereferred to as ‘new non-linear optical materials’, many of them reporting salts of amino acids. However,the term NLO material is used improperly in most cases. In fact, the establishment of any crystal speciesas such a material requires several experimental and computational procedures, which are seldomsatisfied when characterizing a supposedly new species. Here, some frequent hazards and problems areaddressed and observations of papers reporting amino acid compounds as supposedly new NLOmaterials are made.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Mineralogy and Crystallography
- External organisation(s)
- National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
- Journal
- Journal of Crystal Growth
- Volume
- 312
- Pages
- 2284-2290
- No. of pages
- 7
- ISSN
- 0022-0248
- Publication date
- 2010
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105113 Crystallography
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/e72da44e-c494-49e4-a409-d46fda5d825c