GROWTH AND CHARACTERIZATION OF COBALT DOPED TRIMETALLIC THIOCYANATE

Crystals are essential for a variety of scientific and commercial purposes. Modern solid-state electronics is based on Crystal growth revolution. Some metallic thiocynate complexes exhibit excellent nonlinear opitical properties single crystals of one such materials Cobalt Zinc cadmiumand mercury thiocynate. CoZncd Hg (SCN)4 have been grown in silica gel with gel technique by the process of diffusions and the optimum growth condition has been studied. Crystals of 5mm length have been obtained. EDAX analysis was performed and the relative elemental composition and weight percentage present in the crystal are determined. The tetragonal structure of grown crystal was confirmed by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The presence of various functional groups was identified by FTIR analysis.TG/DTA analysis have shown that the thermal decomposition of grown crystal in multi-step process.