• Title of article

    Growth and properties of sodium tetraborate decahydrate single crystals

  • Author/Authors

    Goel، نويسنده , , Neeti and Sinha، نويسنده , , Nidhi and Kumar، نويسنده , , Binay، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2013
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    1632
  • To page
    1636
  • Abstract
    Sodium tetraborate decahydrate (Na2B4O7·10H2O) single crystals were grown from aqueous solution by slow solvent evaporation method and its functional groups have been confirmed by FTIR. Grown crystals were found to be hard in nature (n = 1.8). From optical studies band gap of the material was found to be 4.1 eV and PL emission peak was found at 340 nm which can be due to annihilation self trapped excitons present in borate crystals. Dielectric constant was found to increase with temperature up to 70 °C. Conductivity obeys Jonscherʹs power law as seen at different temperatures. Activation energy of the crystal was found to be 2.05 eV.
  • Keywords
    A. Inorganic compounds , B. Crystal growth , C. X-ray diffraction , D. Dielectric properties , D. Optical properties
  • Journal title
    Materials Research Bulletin
  • Serial Year
    2013
  • Journal title
    Materials Research Bulletin
  • Record number

    2103463