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Facile Synthesis of Colloidal Lead Halide Perovskite Nanoplatelets via Ligand-Assisted Reprecipitation
Published on: October 1, 2019
Experimental and theoretical studies on the linear and nonlinear optical properties of lead phosphate crystals
Guopeng Han1, Qiong Liu, Ying Wang
1Key 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. wangying@ms.xjb.ac.cn slpan@ms.xjb.ac.cn.
Abstract:
Phosphates with noncentrosymmetric (NCS) structures usually display short ultraviolet (UV) cut-off edges, but often exhibit weak powder second harmonic generation (SHG) intensities. Here we synthesized a NCS-phosphate, LiPbPO4, that achieves a desired balance between UV transparency, a cut-off edge of about 232 nm, and large SHG activity (about 3 × KDP). The three dimensional (3D) framework of LiPbPO4 consists of PO4 and LiO4 tetrahedra that are corner-shared, forming wide channels where lead cations reside. Local dipole moments for the PO4 and LiO4 tetrahedra as well as lead polyhedra in a unit cell were calculated. First-principles calculations have been performed for better understanding the structure-property relationships in LiPbPO4. In addition, to further explore spatial distribution of the electronic states dominating the NLO activity, the SHG density method was employed.
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