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Yi Yang1,2, Pifu Gong1, Qian Huang3
1Beijing Center for Crystal R&D, Key Lab of Functional Crystals and Laser Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190 , P.R. China.
Abstract:
A new deep-ultraviolet transparent alkali metal borophosphate KNa4B2P3O13 is synthesized by high-temperature flux method, and its properties were characterized by a combination of experimental and ab initio methods. This compound crystallizes in the noncentrosymmetric Pna21 space group and its framework is formed of one-dimensional infinite [B2P3O13]∞ chains consisting of apex-sharing [BO4] and [PO4] tetrahedra. KNa4B2P3O13 had a short ultraviolet edge (<190 nm) and exhibited a moderate powder second-harmonic generation signal (0.4 × KDP). The discovery of KNa4B2P3O13 enriches the structural diversity of borophosphates and would bring a more comprehensive understanding of the structure-properties relationship in deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals.
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