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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Dumitru Sirbu, Dr Leo TsuiORCiD, Dr Naseem Alsaif, Dr Susana Iglesias Porras, Dr Pablo Docampo, Professor Noel HealyORCiD
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© This paper establishes the potential of the recently introduced ABX3 metal-free perovskite structures for third-order nonlinear optical processes. The base unit in this family of materials is an ammonium halide octahedra, and it incorporates a large aromatic cation spacer forming the classic perovskite structure. This work shows that the choice of cation is key to the resulting third-order nonlinearity, where the incorporation of "MDABCO"into the structure, a very polar cation, results in a third-order nonlinear refractive index on the order of 10-17 m2 W-1 and high laser damage threshold of 0.8 J cm-2. Owing to its very wide band gap of ∼5.12 eV, this material exhibits a high nonlinear figure of merit across the visible and near-infrared transmission windows. These results show that the metal-free family of perovskite materials is an excellent candidate for nonlinear optics in the important visible and near-infrared wavelength regimes.
Author(s): Sirbu D, Tsui HCL, Alsaif N, Iglesias-Porras S, Zhang Y, Wang M, Liu M, Peacock AC, Docampo P, Healy N
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: ACS Photonics
Year: 2021
Volume: 8
Issue: 8
Pages: 2450-2458
Print publication date: 18/08/2021
Online publication date: 14/07/2021
Acceptance date: 07/05/2021
Date deposited: 19/08/2021
ISSN (electronic): 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
URL: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00687
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00687
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