“…The crystal structure was first determined and reported by Akella and Keszler in 1995 [4]. Ba 2 Mg(BO 3 ) 2 shows good excitation characteristics from ultraviolent to red regions and has been reported to be a fascinating luminescence host for rareearth ions such as Ce 3+ , Eu 2+ , Eu 3+ , Pb 2+ and Sm 3+ [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Besides, Ba 2 Mg(BO 3 ) 2 has a large negative birefringence comparable to a-BBO with high transparency in the visible-light region due to the large energy difference between the non-bonding O lone pair electron state and BÀ ÀO bond state [16].…”