Na3Ba2(B3O6)2F: Next Generation of Deep-Ultraviolet Birefringent Materials
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Abstract
Birefringent materials are of great importance in optical communication and the laser industry, as they can modulate the polarization of light. Limited by their transparency range, few birefringent materials, except α-BaB 2 O 4 (α-BBO), can be practically used in the deep ultraviolet (UV) region. However, α-BBO suffers from a phase transition and does not have enough transparency in the deep UV region. By introducing the relatively small alkali metal Na + cation and the F – anion to keep the favorable structural features of α-BBO, we report a new birefringent crystal Na 3 Ba 2 (B 3 O 6 ) 2 F (NBBF), which has the desirable optical properties. NBBF not only maintains the large birefringence (Δ n = n o – n e = 0.2554–0.0750 from 175 nm to 3.35 μm) and extends its UV cutoff edge to 175 nm (14 nm shorter than α-BBO) but also eliminates the phase transition and has the lowest growth temperature (820 °C) among birefringent materials. These results demonstrate that NBBF is an attractive candidate for the next generation of deep UV birefringent materials.
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OpenAlex topics: Crystal Structures and Properties · Inorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds · Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
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Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Special Environments of CAS, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, 40-1 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry of CAS, Beijing 100190, China
Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
Funding
National Natural Science Foundation of China · National Science Foundation · Main Direction Program of Knowledge Innovation of CAS · 973 Program of China · The Funds for Creative Cross & Cooperation Teams of CAS, Xinjiang International Science & Technology Cooperation Program · Western Light of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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