Hydrogen-Bonded Switchable Dielectric Material Showing the Bistability of Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties
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Sun, Z
Zhang, W
Ji, C
Liu, S
Han, S
Luo, J
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Physical properties of phase transition materials are directly linked to the transformation of structural moieties. Here, we report a new hydrogen-bonded binary crystal of cyclohexylaminium chlorodifluoroacetate (1), consisting of two distinct types of the anion-cationic structural moieties, which shows an order-disorder phase transition around 153 K (phase transition point, Tc). Thermal analyses, dielectric, and second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) measurements solidly confirm the symmetry transformation from the point group mmm to mm2. It is noteworthy that 1 exhibits a coexistence of switchable dielectric behaviors and bistable NLO effects. In detail, it is NLO-active below Tc, while its quadratic NLO effects completely disappear above Tc. Such a change reveals the bistable feature of its quadratic NLO properties. Further, variable-temperature structure analyses reveal that the emergence of NLO effects below Tc is ascribed to partial ordering of anions and small-angle reorientation of cations. This mechanism is different from that of the precedent NLO-switching materials, which affords a potential avenue to design new electric-ordered molecular compounds as multifunctional materials.
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Crystal Growth and Design
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17
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6
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Inorganic chemistry
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Zhang, J; Sun, Z; Zhang, W; Ji, C; Liu, S; Han, S; Luo, J, Hydrogen-Bonded Switchable Dielectric Material Showing the Bistability of Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties, Crystal Growth and Design, 2017, 17 (6), pp. 3250-3256