Hydrogen Bond-Driven Order-Disorder Phase Transition in the Near-Room-Temperature Nonlinear Optical Switch [Ag(NH3)(2)](2)SO4

JACS Au(2022)

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Herein, we report a near-room-temperature nonlinear optical (NLO) switch material, [Ag(NH3)(2)](2)SO4, exhibiting switching performance with strong room-temperature second harmonic generation (SHG) intensity that outperforms the UV-vis spectral region industry standard KH2PO4 (1.4 times stronger). [Ag(NH3)(2)](2)SO4 undergoes a reversible phase transition (T-c = 356 K) from the noncentrosymmetric room-temperature phase (P (4) over bar2(1)c, RTP) to a centrosymmetric high-temperature phase (I4/mmm, HTP) where both the SO42- anions and [Ag(NH3)(2)](+) cations are highly disordered. The weakening of hydrogen bond interactions in the HTP is also evidenced by the lower energy shift of the stretching vibration of the N-H center dot center dot center dot O bonds revealed by the in situ FT-IR spectra. Such weakening leads to an unusual negative thermal expansion along the c axis (-3%). In addition, both the atomic displacement parameters of the single-crystal diffraction data and the molecular dynamics-simulated mean squared displacements suggest the motions of the O and N atoms. Such a structural disorder not only hinders the phonon propagation and dramatically drops the thermal conductivity to 0.22 W m(-1) K-1 at 361 K but also significantly weakens the optical anisotropy and SHG as verified by the DFT theoretical studies.
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nonlinear optical switch, disorder, hydrogen bond, phase transition, sulfate
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