Molin Zhou

TL;DR: Several metal thiophosphate compounds are highlighted to exhibit good mid-IR NLO performances, as supported by the primary experimental results, which would greatly promote the development of the mid- IR NLO functional materials.

TL;DR: A new mercury selenide BaHgSe2 was synthesized, which displays a large nonlinear optical (NLO) response and melts congruently.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Hg-based IR nonlinear optical (NLO) material with desirable properties has been newly discovered, where distorted HgSe4 and GaSe4 tetrahedra are connected to each other by vertex-sharing to form a three-dimensional framework with the counterion K+ residing in the cavities.

TL;DR: The combination of experimental and theoretical study demonstrates that AgZnPS4 exhibits a much stronger NLO effect than that of LiZn PS4 despite the relatively smaller energy band gap, and allows it to possess much better overall performance for the practical mid-IR NLO applications.

TL;DR: The differential scanning calorimetry curve indicates a congruent-melting thermal behavior of Zn3P2S8, which is conducive to large single-crystal growth, which makes it a practically usable IR nonlinear-optical candidate.