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MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN
Volume 92, Issue -, Pages 113-122Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.materresbull.2017.03.065
Keywords
Boron phosphide nano-cages; Aluminum phosphide nano-cages; Alkali metal doping; Enhanced (hyper)polarizability; Non linear optical properties
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- Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan [1899, 2469, 2981]
- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad
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Phosphide nano-cages of MX12P11 and MX11P12 (where X = B or Al, M = Li, Na, K) are investigated theoretically for geometric, electronic and nonlinear optical (NLO) properties. Alkali metal is doped by replacing (a) aluminum or boron atom and (b) phosphorus atom. Alkali metal doping can remarkably alter the electronic and NLO properties of the nano-cages, regardless of doping site. HOMO-LUMO gap is decreased whereas first hyperpolarizability is enhanced significantly in doped AlP and BP nano-cages. PDOS (partial density of states) analysis suggests that diffuse excess electrons from alkali metal play important role in boosting NLO properties of phosphide nano-cages. TD-DFT calculations are performed to study the effect of alkali metal doping on absorption spectra. Red shift is observed in the UV-vis spectra of all considered nano-cages. Comparison of phosphide nano-cages with nitride nano-cages indicated that doping nitride nano-cages with alkali metal leads to greater hyperpolarizability and NLO response than doping phosphide nano-cages. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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