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Second harmonic generation from the ‘centrosymmetric’ crystals
Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a well known non-linear optical phenomena which can be observed only in non-centrosymmetric crystals due to non-zero hyperpolarizability. In the current work we observed SHG from a Zn(II) complex which was originally thought to have crystallized in the centrosymme...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25995840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2052252515002183 |
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author | Nalla, Venkatram Medishetty, Raghavender Wang, Yue Bai, Zhaozhi Sun, Handong Wei, Ji. Vittal, Jagadese J. |
author_facet | Nalla, Venkatram Medishetty, Raghavender Wang, Yue Bai, Zhaozhi Sun, Handong Wei, Ji. Vittal, Jagadese J. |
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description | Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a well known non-linear optical phenomena which can be observed only in non-centrosymmetric crystals due to non-zero hyperpolarizability. In the current work we observed SHG from a Zn(II) complex which was originally thought to have crystallized in the centrosymmetric space group C2/c. This has been attributed to the unequal antiparallel packing of the metal complexes in the non-symmetric space group Cc or residual non-centrosymmetry in C2/c giving rise to polarizability leading to strong SHG. The enhancement of SHG by UV light has been attributed to the increase in non-centrosymmetry and hence polarity of packing due to strain induced in the crystals. The SHG signals measured from these crystals were as large as potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystals, KH(2)PO(4) (KDP), and showed temperature dependence. The highest SHG efficiency was observed at 50 K. The SHG phenomenon was observed at broad wavelengths ranging from visible to below-red in these crystals. |
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spelling | pubmed-44205412015-05-20 Second harmonic generation from the ‘centrosymmetric’ crystals Nalla, Venkatram Medishetty, Raghavender Wang, Yue Bai, Zhaozhi Sun, Handong Wei, Ji. Vittal, Jagadese J. IUCrJ Research Papers Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a well known non-linear optical phenomena which can be observed only in non-centrosymmetric crystals due to non-zero hyperpolarizability. In the current work we observed SHG from a Zn(II) complex which was originally thought to have crystallized in the centrosymmetric space group C2/c. This has been attributed to the unequal antiparallel packing of the metal complexes in the non-symmetric space group Cc or residual non-centrosymmetry in C2/c giving rise to polarizability leading to strong SHG. The enhancement of SHG by UV light has been attributed to the increase in non-centrosymmetry and hence polarity of packing due to strain induced in the crystals. The SHG signals measured from these crystals were as large as potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystals, KH(2)PO(4) (KDP), and showed temperature dependence. The highest SHG efficiency was observed at 50 K. The SHG phenomenon was observed at broad wavelengths ranging from visible to below-red in these crystals. International Union of Crystallography 2015-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4420541/ /pubmed/25995840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2052252515002183 Text en © Venkatram Nalla et al. 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Papers Nalla, Venkatram Medishetty, Raghavender Wang, Yue Bai, Zhaozhi Sun, Handong Wei, Ji. Vittal, Jagadese J. Second harmonic generation from the ‘centrosymmetric’ crystals |
title | Second harmonic generation from the ‘centrosymmetric’ crystals |
title_full | Second harmonic generation from the ‘centrosymmetric’ crystals |
title_fullStr | Second harmonic generation from the ‘centrosymmetric’ crystals |
title_full_unstemmed | Second harmonic generation from the ‘centrosymmetric’ crystals |
title_short | Second harmonic generation from the ‘centrosymmetric’ crystals |
title_sort | second harmonic generation from the ‘centrosymmetric’ crystals |
topic | Research Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25995840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2052252515002183 |
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