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[ABa2Cl][Ga4S8] (A = Rb, Cs): Wide-Spectrum Nonlinear Optical Materials Obtained by Polycation-Substitution-Induced
Bin-Wen Liu1, Xiao-Ming Jiang1, Hui-Yi Zeng1
1State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Noncentrosymmetry (NCS) is a prerequisite for second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) materials. In this work, a new polycation-substitution-induced centrosymmetry (CS)-to-NCS transformation strategy was applied in CS RbGaS2, affording two novel NCS salt-inclusion chalcogenides: [ABa2Cl][Ga4S8] (A = Rb, 1; Cs, 2). Remarkably, they exhibit the key merits of both Vis and IR NLO candidates, including strong phase-matchable second harmonic generation intensities (10.4-15.3 × KH2PO4 at 1064 nm; 0.9-1.0 × AgGaS2 at 1910 nm), high laser-induced damage thresholds (11-12 × AgGaS2), and a wide transparent window. Their prominent NLO performances originate from the orderly packing of T2-supertetrahedral Ga4S10 motifs resulting from the template effect of acentric polycation [ClA2Ba3]7+. The CS-to-NCS transformation first realized by polycation-substitution-induced NLO-functional motif ordering provides an effective approach for designing new NLO materials.
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