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Chenjie Cui1, Yuchen Yan1, Xin Wen2
1State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Crystal Materials, Institute of Functional Crystal, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, China.
Abstract:
Short-wave ultraviolet (200-280 nm) nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals are scarce. Herein, by mixing two types of hetero-coordinate substituted groups, we synthesized two new crystals, Zn(C2H4NO2)2(SO2CH3NH2)2 (ZGlyM) and Zn(C2H4NO2)2[SO2(NH2)2] (ZGlyS), featuring a unique ZnO(C2H4NO2)2 secondary functional building unit which tends to assemble into a polar chain. Interestingly, disorder in ZGlyM results in a centrosymmetric structure, whereas in ZGlyS, the replacement of the polar tetrahedral group eliminates disorder and preserves a non-centrosymmetric structure. Notably, the ZGlyS exhibits a rare balance between a short UV cutoff edge of 209 nm, a large second harmonic generation effect of 1.36 × KH2PO4, and a large birefringence of 0.126@546 nm. Remarkably, its phase-matching range covers the entire transparent wavelength range, namely, the shortest phase-matching wavelength is 209 nm. This work provides a potential short-wave UV NLO crystal and offers new insights for the design of such crystals.
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