Targeting the Next Generation of Deep-Ultraviolet Nonlinear Optical Materials: Expanding from Borates to Borate Fluorides to Fluorooxoborates.

作者：Miriding Mutailipu, Min Zhang, Zhihua Yang, S. Pan · 发表于：Accounts of Chemical Research · 年份：2019 · DOI：10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00649 · 研究领域：Medicine、Materials Science

Coherent light radiation down to the deep-ultraviolet spectral range (λ < 200 nm) produced by common laser sources is extensively used in diverse fields ranging from ultrahigh-resolution photolithography to photochemical synthesis to high-precision microprocessing. Actually, it is hard to immediately obtain certain wavelengths, deep-ultraviolet coherent light in particular, from commercial laser sources. However, the direct second harmonic generation process governed in part by nonlinear optical crystals is a feasible and effective approach to generate deep-ultraviolet coherent light, which motivates chemists and materials scientists to find potential deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical materials that can practically meet the scientific requirements. The research progress required to go from a new single-crystal structure to final device applications involves many pivotal steps and is highly time-consuming and challenging, and therefore, it is necessary to commence systematic studies aimed at shortening the research cycle and accelerating the rational design of deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical materials. In this Account, we choose borates as raw materials because they have ever-greater possibilities to form desired noncentrosymmetric structures, wide optical transparency windows, rich structural chemistry, and also large polarizabilities to guarantee the coexistence of large second-order nonlinear optical coefficients and suitable birefringence. Besides, the effects of fluor...