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J Am Chem Soc. 2016 Jul 27;138(29):9101-4. doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b06053. Epub 2016 Jul 18.

A New Deep-Ultraviolet Transparent Orthophosphate LiCs2PO4 with Large Second Harmonic Generation Response.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Lin Li, Ying Wang, Bing-Hua Lei, Shujuan Han, Zhihua Yang, Kenneth R Poeppelmeier, Shilie Pan

Affiliations

  1. Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments of CAS, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS , 40-1 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China.
  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, China.
  3. Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University , 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States.

PMID: 27403745 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b06053

Abstract

LiCs2PO4, a new deep-ultraviolet (UV) transparent material, was synthesized by the flux method. The material contains unusual edge-sharing LiO4-PO4 tetrahedra. It exhibits a very short absorption edge of λ = 174 nm and generates the largest powder second harmonic generation (SHG) response for deep-UV phosphates that do not contain additional anionic groups, i.e., 2.6 times that of KH2PO4 (KDP). First-principles electronic structure analyses confirm the experimental results and suggest that the strong SHG response may originate from the aligned nonbonding O-2p orbitals. The discovery and characterization of LiCs2PO4 provide a new insight into the structure-property relationships of phosphate-based nonlinear optical materials with large SHG responses and short absorption edges.

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