Reply to comment on the paper “Remarkable enhancement in dielectric, piezoelectric, ferroelectric and SHG properties by iron doping in sodium para-nitrophenolatedihydrate single crystal” [Mater. Lett. 165 (2016) 99-102]

This article is in response to the comments raised on our paper “Remarkable enhancement in dielectric, piezoelectric, ferroelectric and SHG properties by iron doping in sodium para-nitrophenolate dihydrate single crystal” published in Materials Letters (Dalal and Kumar, 2016 [1]). In the ferroelectric studies, we performed PUND studies to establish that an unsaturated P-E loop may also contain intrinsic ferroelectric polarization. In dielectric studies, it has been shown that the variation did follow Curie-Wiess law confirming the transition to be related to ferroelectric to paraelectric phase. In respect of the comment on piezoelectric enhancement, it has been shown that the achieved enhancement in d33-value due to Fe-doping is well within the possible change in piezo-response by doping in different types of systems.