Theoretical and experimental study of new nonlinear optical material nicotinohydrazide

Abstract

Pyridine-3-carbohydrazide (NIH) crystal is grown by slow evaporation solution growth technique and the single crystal X-ray diffraction experiment confirms cell parameters and space group. The FT-IR and FT-Raman studies are used to identify the functional groups in the compound Nicotinohydrazide. The thermal studies are conducted using thermogravimetric analysis and differential thermal analysis, the UV–Visible transmission spectrum of NIH is recorded within the range of 400–800[Formula: see text]nm. Besides, in order to know the optical properties of the material at molecular level, density functional theory (DFT) has been employed using B3LYP method at 6-[Formula: see text] (d,p). The electric dipole moment and first-order hyperpolarizability are calculated and found to be high. The second-order NLO studies for NIH crystal are done and it is compared with KDP.