Recent achievements in lone-pair cation-based infrared second-order nonlinear optical materials

M Yan, HG Xue, SP Guo - Crystal Growth & Design, 2020 - ACS Publications
In the past 20 years, fundamental research on novel nonlinear optical (NLO) compounds
has been extensively performed, which has built the important background for the …

Aliovalent-cation-substitution-induced structure transformation: a new path toward high-performance IR nonlinear optical materials

C Liu, SH Zhou, Y Xiao, C Zhang, H Lin… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Non-centrosymmetric (NCS) structure is the precondition and foundation for the
development of high-performance nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals. In this research, a …

CsCu 3 SbS 4: rational design of a two-dimensional layered material with giant birefringence derived from Cu 3 SbS 4

C Liu, SH Zhou, C Zhang, YY Shen, XY Liu… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
It is an important and challenging task to develop new infrared (IR) birefringent materials to
promote the development of laser technology. In this work, a novel thioantimonate with the …

First Investigation of Nonlinear Optical Oxychalcogenide with Three‐Dimensional Anionic Framework and Special Windmill‐Like Functional Motifs

JN Li, XH Li, YX Xu, W Liu… - Chinese Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive Summary Oxychalcogenides have been drawn much attention to be
explored as nonlinear optical (NLO) materials in recent years. To date, all the NLO …

Investigation into Structural Variation from 3D to 1D and Strong Second Harmonic Generation of the AHgPS4 (A+ = Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+) Family

W Xing, C Tang, P Gong, J Wu, Z Lin, J Yao… - Inorganic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The continuous exploration of multinary chalcogenide semiconductors has provided a
variety of new functional materials. In this paper, four new quaternary chalcogenides …

Structural modification from centrosymmetric Rb 4 Hg 2 Ge 2 S 8 to noncentrosymmetric (Na 3 Rb) Hg 2 Ge 2 S 8: mixed alkali metals strategy for infrared nonlinear …

C Tang, W Xing, F Liang, M Sun, J Tang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Noncentrosymmetric (NCS) structure is the precondition for second-order nonlinear optical
(NLO) materials. In this work, we present a new strategy for constructing NCS structures …

Noncentrosymmetric chalcohalide K2Ba3Ge3S9Cl2: A new nonlinear optical material with remarkable laser-induced damage threshold

W Zhou, ZH Shi, W Liu, SP Guo - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2022 - Elsevier
Chalcohalides are attractive infrared (IR) nonlinear optical (NLO) materials because they
can take advantages of the large second-harmonic generation (SHG) responses of …

Two rare-earth-based quaternary chalcogenides EuCdGeQ 4 (Q= S, Se) with strong second-harmonic generation

W Xing, N Wang, Y Guo, Z Li, J Tang, K Kang… - Dalton …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Two new rare-earth-based chalcogenides EuCdGeQ4 (Q= S, Se) have been designed and
constructed by using Eu2+ and the classical NLO-active SBUs of [CdQ4] and [GeQ4]. They …

Lead Tellurite Crystals BaPbTe2O6 and PbVTeO5F with Large Nonlinear-/Linear-Optical Responses due to Active Lone Pairs and Distorted Octahedra

Y Yang, Y Guo, B Zhang, T Wang, YG Chen… - Inorganic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The exploration of nonlinear-/linear-optical crystal materials with high performance is an
extremely difficult research project. Herein, the two new lead tellurite crystals BaPbTe2O6 …

Second-Harmonic-Generation-Active Oxyhalides: CuSb2O3X (X = Cl, Br)

M Yang, ZH Shi, WD Yao, SP Guo - Inorganic Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Metal oxyhalides have attracted broad interest recently because of their diverse structures
and versatile properties. Here, two oxyhalides, CuSb2O3Cl (1) and CuSb2O3Br (2), were …