Potential optical functional crystals with large birefringence: Recent advances and future prospects

A Tudi, S Han, Z Yang, S Pan - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Birefringence is one of key performance for optical functional crystals owing to their
indispensable role in angle phase-matching or adjusting the polarization of light. In the past …

2D material‐based optical biosensor: status and prospect

ZL Lei, B Guo - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The combination of 2D materials and optical biosensors has become a hot research topic in
recent years. Graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, black phosphorus, MXenes, and …

Lead mixed oxyhalides satisfying all fundamental requirements for high‐performance mid‐infrared nonlinear optical materials

X Chen, H Jo, KM Ok - Angewandte Chemie, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To design high‐performance mid‐infrared (mid‐IR) nonlinear optical (NLO) materials, we
have focused on the combination of a heavy metal lone pair cation, Pb2+ and mixed …

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 …

Birefringence Regulation by Clarifying the Relationship Between Stereochemically Active Lone Pairs and Optical Anisotropy in Tin‐based Ternary Halides

J Guo, J Huang, A Tudi, X Hou, S Han… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is important to establish and clarify the relationship between stereochemically active lone
pairs and birefringence, since it is one of the significantly effective routes to explore …

Ca2Ln(BS3)(SiS4) (Ln = La, Ce, and Gd): Mixed Metal Thioborate‐Thiosilicates as Well‐Performed Infrared Nonlinear Optical Materials

YX Han, CL Hu, JG Mao - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The first examples of thioborate‐thiosilicates, namely Ca2Ln (BS3)(SiS4)(Ln= La, Ce, and
Gd), are synthesized by rationally designed high‐temperature solid‐state reactions. They …

LaBS 3 revisited: a promising mid-infrared nonlinear optical material

YX Han, CL Hu, Z Fang, QQ Chen, BX Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Thioborates are considered new potential mid-infrared nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals with
wide band gaps and large second-harmonic generation (SHG) coefficients. Despite the fact …

SnPQ3 (Q = S, Se, S/Se): A Series of Lone-Pair Cationic Chalcogenophosphates Exhibiting Balanced NLO Activity Originating from SnQ8 Units

ZH Shi, M Yang, WD Yao, W Liu, SP Guo - Inorganic Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two chalcogenophosphates, SnPS2. 86Se0. 14 (1) and SnPSe3 (2), are isostructural and
crystallize in the monoclinic noncentrosymmetric space group Pn. Their three-dimensional …

Centric-to-acentric structure transformation induced by a stereochemically active lone pair: a new insight for design of IR nonlinear optical materials

H Lin, YY Li, MY Li, Z Ma, LM Wu, XT Wu… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
For second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) responses, such as second-harmonic-generation
(SHG), a strict non-centrosymmetric (NCS) structure is the paramount precondition. In this …

Two Mixed-Anion Units of [GeOSe3] and [GeO3S] Originating from Partial Isovalent Anion Substitution and Inducing Moderate Second Harmonic Generation …

W Xing, P Fang, N Wang, Z Li, Z Lin, J Yao… - Inorganic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Highly polarizable mixed-anion structural building units (SBUs) have been demonstrated as
promising candidates for high-performing optical crystals. In this work, two new mixed-anion …