Prospects for fluoride carbonate nonlinear optical crystals in the UV and deep-UV regions

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 48, 2013, Pages 25684-25692

  Kang, Lei ^a,e   Luo, Siyang ^a   Huang, Hongwei ^b   Ye, Ning ^c   Lin, Zheshuai ^a   Qin, Jingui ^d   Chen, Chuangtian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c FUJIAN INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER   (China)

^d WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENT CRYSTALS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES SIMULATIONS; LARGE BIREFRINGENCE; MATERIALS DESIGN; NONLINEAR OPTICAL CRYSTAL; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; SMALL ENERGY; ULTRA-VIOLET;

BIREFRINGENCE; CARBONATES; ENERGY GAP; HARMONIC GENERATION;

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84890399949     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp409992d     Document Type: Article

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