Beryllium-free Li4 Sr(BO3)2 for deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical applications

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhao, Sangen ^a   Gong, Pifu ^b,c   Bai, Lei ^b   Xu, Xiang ^d   Zhang, Shuquan ^a   Sun, Zhihua ^a   Lin, Zheshuai ^b   Hong, Maochun ^a,d   Chen, Chuangtian ^b   Luo, Junhua ^a,d  

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

^b TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM; BORIC ACID;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; NONLINEARITY; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MECHANICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONLINEAR OPTICAL; OPTICS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84901744660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5019     Document Type: Article

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