The single crystal and crystallized powder of triphosphate CeP3O9 have been synthesized, and the space group of CeP3O9has been determined to be C2221 with the cell parameters ofa = 8.6059, b = 11.2437, c = 7.3518 A, V= 711.4（3） A^3, Z= 4, D,. = 3.520 g/cm^3, F（000） = 700, R = 0.0377 and wR = 0.0930. The absorption and emission spectra have been measured, for which the strongest absorption and emission peaks are located at 280 and 320 nm, respectively. The density of state （DOS） and dielectric function have been calculated by the DFT method. The crystal is transparent provided the wavelength is larger than 341 nm, and the observed ultraviolet cut-off edge is at about 350 nm for a polycrystalline power sample. It is possible that the triphosphate CeP3O9 will become an ultraviolet emission material.
TONG Hua-Nan ZHANG Hao CHENG Wen-Dan WU Dong-Sheng GONG Ya-Jing ZHU Jing HUANG Shu-Ping ZHAO Dan
The bulk crystal of LiSrBO3 （8.39 g） with a size of 21mm × 20mm × 15mm was grown by high temperature solution growth method. The relationship between growth habit and crystal structure was discussed. The transmission spectrum shows an UV absorption edge at about 300 nm. The melting temperature of this crystal was detemained to be 942 ℃ by DTA-TG measurement. The band structure of the LiSrBO3 crystal was studied by means of the first principle method. An indirect band gap was found to be about 4.0 eV, and a low dielectric constant was estimated to be about 1.9 in terms of theoretical results.
Solid-state reaction of praseodymium （III） oxide,K2CO3 and MoO3 at high temperature leads to a potassium lanthanide double molybdate,namely,KPr（MoO4）2. The structural and optical properties of the title compound have been investigated by means of single-crystal X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic measurements at room temperature. KPr（MoO4）2 crystallizes in tetragonal,space group I41/a with a = 5.401（3）,c = 12.044（10）,Z = 2 and R （I 〉 2σ（I）） = 0.0416. It features the famous scheelite-type structure （CaWO4）,which can be thought as the substitution of two Ca^2＋ ions in CaWO4 by a couple of K^＋ and Pr^3＋ ions in a statistical manner,and W^6＋ by Mo^6＋ cations.
Band structure and bonding properties have been investigated in terms of periodic density functional theory（DFT） method,and two-photon absorption（TPA） spectra have been simulated by two-band model for ZnGeP2 and AgGaS2 crystals.It has been predicted that the AgGaS2 crystal has a wider window of nonlinear transmission,and the laser pumping energy larger than 1.02 and 1.35 eV will lead to deleterious TPA of higher nonlinear effect for ZnGeP2 and AgGaS2 crystals,respectively.Electron origin of TPA for them is also discussed.
We present a first principle study of Cr-doped In2O3 system using density functional theory. The obtained results show that the Cr ion prefers the cation site of the center of trigonally distorted octahedron and converges to high spin-polarized configuration in the ground state. The hybridization between d-states and the donor states is strong, and the spin-split donor impurity-band model is found to be the most favorable mechanism for the ferromagnetism in this system. The good ferromagnetic property of high Curie temperature is discussed in view of the electronic structure analyses.
