Lanthanide thioborates, an emerging class of nonlinear optical materials, efficiently synthesized using the boron–chalcogen mixture method

Abstract

The Boron-Chalcogen Mixture method was used to obtain single crystals of the previously extremely difficult to synthesize lanthanide orthothioborates to investigate their structures and their structurally connected optical behavior, such...

Crystal Structures and Property Measurements of Rare Earth Magnesium Thiosilicates Synthesized via Flux Crystal Growth Utilizing the Boron Chalcogen Mixture (BCM) Method

“…Recently, we have demonstrated the use of the boron chalcogen mixture (BCM) method to synthesize single crystals of LnBS 3 (Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd) and measured their nonlinear optical properties. 4 The BCM method allows for the in situ sulfurization of lanthanide oxide starting reagents, thereby avoiding the need for lanthanide sulfide reagents. 5 As this method has been previously used to synthesize a number of lanthanide and transition metal sulfide compounds, we again chose to utilize the BCM method to explore a family of chalcometallates, RE 3 Mg 0.5 SiS 7 (RE = rare earth) compounds to investigate their magnetic and optical properties.…”

“…The zur Loye group, utilizing the molten flux synthetic method, has explored the synthesis of single crystals of a variety of chalcometallate materials, including thiophosphates, thiogermanates, and thiosilicates, to explore their magnetic and optical properties. , A major obstacle to the synthesis of these compounds is the lack of commercially available rare earth sulfide-starting materials, which necessitates their preparation in the laboratory prior to exploring the syntheses of chalcometallate compounds. Recently, we have demonstrated the use of the boron chalcogen mixture (BCM) method to synthesize single crystals of LnBS 3 (Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd) and measured their nonlinear optical properties . The BCM method allows for the in situ sulfurization of lanthanide oxide starting reagents, thereby avoiding the need for lanthanide sulfide reagents .…”

Ag[SC(NH2)2]2F: A Laser Damage-Tolerant Infrared Nonlinear Optical Material

“…30 However, their stringent synthetic conditions and air instability have brought challenges to their practical applications. 31,32 Therefore, it is urgent to find other alternative research systems to avoid these problems.…”

“…Some oxyhalides, chalco-halides, and pnictides are also reported to exhibit a wide IR transmission range and a strong SHG response: Pb 18 O 8 Cl 15 I 5 , Pb 13 O 6 Cl 9 Br 5 , [A 3 Cl]­[Ga 3 PS 8 ] (A = K, Rb; X = Cl, Br), Sr 6 Cd 2 Sb 6 O 7 S 10 , Ba 2 Si 3 P 6 , and α-CdP 2 . However, their stringent synthetic conditions and air instability have brought challenges to their practical applications. , Therefore, it is urgent to find other alternative research systems to avoid these problems.…”

LaBS3 revisited: a promising mid-infrared nonlinear optical material

“…The SHG response of LBS crystals was reported to be 1.5 times that of KH 2 PO 4 (KDP) at 1064 nm and is not phase matchable. 32 However, from our point of view, a new synthetic route, the NLO properties in the mid-IR range, thermal stability and the structure-activity relationship of rare-earth thioborates are still worth further exploration. In this work, we provide a new synthetic route for LaBS 3 (LBS) by solid state reaction of La 2 S 3 , B and S with Li 2 S as flux to obtain millimeter-scale LBS crystals.…”