Conspectus Solid-state materials with extended structures have revealed many interesting
structure-related characteristics. Among many, materials crystallizing in noncentrosymmetric …

The last five years have witnessed a huge breakthrough in the creation and the study of the
properties of a new class of compounds–metamaterials. The next stage of this technological …

Discovering novel sulfate optical materials with strong second‐harmonic generation (SHG)
and large birefringence is confronted by a great challenge attributed to the intrinsically weak …

A novel noncentrosymmetric (NCS) polar fluoride sulfate, CsSbF2SO4, was obtained by
ionothermal synthesis. A meticulously designed co‐substitution approach was used to …

Materials chemistry and the pursuit of new compounds through exploratory synthesis are
having a strong impact in many technological fields. The field of nonlinear optics is directly …

The family of metal thiophosphates is an important but long-ignored compound system of the
nonlinear optical (NLO) materials with desirable properties for the mid-infrared (mid-IR) …

Introduction of the Cl–anion in the borate systems generates a new perovskite-like phase,
K3B6O10Cl, which exhibits a large second harmonic response, about four times that of …

Metal iodates with a lone-pair containing I (V) in an asymmetric coordination geometry can
form a diversity of unusual structures, including non-centrosymmetric (NCS) structures with …

A new series of alkaline–alkaline earth fluoride carbonates (KSrCO3F, RbSrCO3F,
KCaCO3F, RbCaCO3F, CsCaCO3F, and Cs3Ba4 (CO3) 3F5) were synthesized by …

The first metal iodate fluoride, Bi (IO3) F2, with a strong second harmonic generation (SHG)
effect has been prepared. Bi (IO3) F2 crystallizes in the polar space group C2 and features a …