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Cai Sun1,2, Chen Yang2, Pei-Xin Li2
1State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, China.
Inorganic Chemistry
|June 18, 2021
Abstract:
A high contrast of ∼67 times, exceeding those of all known photoswitching bulk quadratic nonlinear-optical materials, has been realized in a photochromic semiconductor, by the strategy of increasing electron-transfer efficiency and self-absorption.

