A review of the ABIICIVD family as infrared nonlinear optical materials: the effect of each site on the structure and optical properties

Guangmao Li; Zhihua Yang; Junjie Li; Shilie Pan

doi:10.1039/d0cc05132b

A review of the AB^IIC^IVD family as infrared nonlinear optical materials: the effect of each site on the structure and optical properties

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Oct 1;56(78):11565-11576. doi: 10.1039/d0cc05132b.

Authors

Guangmao Li¹, Zhihua Yang², Junjie Li², Shilie Pan²

Affiliations

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments; Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, CAS; Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, 40-1 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China. lijunjie@ms.xjb.ac.cn slpan@ms.xjb.ac.cn.
² CAS Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments; Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, CAS; Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, 40-1 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China. lijunjie@ms.xjb.ac.cn slpan@ms.xjb.ac.cn and Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academic of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.

PMID: 32935674
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc05132b

Abstract

Inorganic infrared (IR) second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals have become increasingly important for fulfilling the demands of modern laser technology through frequency conversion via optical parametric oscillation (OPO) and optical parameter amplification (OPA) technology. The AI2BIICIVDVI4 family contains a large number of compounds (to our best knowledge, 102 formula) and shows abundant structural diversity; it could be regarded as a potential source of IR second-order NLO materials with tunable structures and properties. This article summarizes the authors' contributions to the AI2BIICIVDVI4 family, together with other reported related results where the NLO properties have been provided (a total of 38 compounds). In the title family: (1) the AI site can be occupied by the univalent coinage metals Cu and Ag or the alkali metals Li and Na; (2) the BII site involves divalent metals, including the alkaline earth metals (AEM) Sr and Ba or the d10 metals Zn, Cd, and Hg; (3) the CIV site is prevalently IVA group semi-conducting Si and Ge, or Sn; and (4) the DVI site is S or Se. The structures and optical properties of these compounds are summarized and the influence of substitution at each site on the structures and properties is systematically analyzed.