We suggest a new family of Co/Ni-based materials that may host unconventional high temperature superconductivity(high-Tc). These materials carry layered square lattices with each layer being formed by vertex-shared tr...We suggest a new family of Co/Ni-based materials that may host unconventional high temperature superconductivity(high-Tc). These materials carry layered square lattices with each layer being formed by vertex-shared transition metal tetrahedra cation–anion complexes. The electronic physics in these materials is determined by the two dimensional layer and is fully attributed to the three near degenerated t2gd-orbitals close to a d7 filling configuration in the d-shell of Co/Ni atoms. The electronic structure meets the necessary criteria for unconventional high Tcmaterials proposed recently by us to unify the two known high-Tcfamilies, cuprates and iron-based superconductors. We predict that they host superconducting states with a d-wave pairing symmetry with Tcpotentially higher than those of iron-based superconductors. These materials, if realized, can be a fertile new ground to study strongly correlated electronic physics and provide decisive evidence for superconducting pairing mechanism.展开更多
Metal iodates with a lone-pair containing I(V) that is in an asymmetric coordination geometry can form a diversity of unusual structures and many of them are promising new second homonic generation (SHG) materials. Th...Metal iodates with a lone-pair containing I(V) that is in an asymmetric coordination geometry can form a diversity of unusual structures and many of them are promising new second homonic generation (SHG) materials. They exhibit wide transparency wavelength regions, large SHG coefficients and high optical-damage thresholds as well as moderately high thermal stability. In this paper, the structures and properties of the metal iodates are reviewed. The combination of d0 transition-metal cations with the iodate groups afforded a large number of metal iodates, with cations covering alkali metal, alkaline earth and lanthanide elements. Many of them are noncentrosymmetric (NCS) and display excellent SHG properties due to the additive effects of polarizations from both types of the asymmetric units. Some lanthanide iodates are able to emit strong luminescence in the visible or near-IR regions. The use of transition metal ions with dn (n ≠ 0) electronic configuration into iodate systems can also induce the formation of NCS compounds when the lone pairs of the iodate groups are properly aligned. The dn transition metal cations are normally octahedrally coordinated or in a square-planar coordination geometry. Furthermore, the combination of two different types of lone-pair-containing cations is also an effective strategy to design new SHG materials.展开更多
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (2015CB921300)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11334012)the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB07000000)
文摘We suggest a new family of Co/Ni-based materials that may host unconventional high temperature superconductivity(high-Tc). These materials carry layered square lattices with each layer being formed by vertex-shared transition metal tetrahedra cation–anion complexes. The electronic physics in these materials is determined by the two dimensional layer and is fully attributed to the three near degenerated t2gd-orbitals close to a d7 filling configuration in the d-shell of Co/Ni atoms. The electronic structure meets the necessary criteria for unconventional high Tcmaterials proposed recently by us to unify the two known high-Tcfamilies, cuprates and iron-based superconductors. We predict that they host superconducting states with a d-wave pairing symmetry with Tcpotentially higher than those of iron-based superconductors. These materials, if realized, can be a fertile new ground to study strongly correlated electronic physics and provide decisive evidence for superconducting pairing mechanism.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (20731006, 20825104 & 21003127)
文摘Metal iodates with a lone-pair containing I(V) that is in an asymmetric coordination geometry can form a diversity of unusual structures and many of them are promising new second homonic generation (SHG) materials. They exhibit wide transparency wavelength regions, large SHG coefficients and high optical-damage thresholds as well as moderately high thermal stability. In this paper, the structures and properties of the metal iodates are reviewed. The combination of d0 transition-metal cations with the iodate groups afforded a large number of metal iodates, with cations covering alkali metal, alkaline earth and lanthanide elements. Many of them are noncentrosymmetric (NCS) and display excellent SHG properties due to the additive effects of polarizations from both types of the asymmetric units. Some lanthanide iodates are able to emit strong luminescence in the visible or near-IR regions. The use of transition metal ions with dn (n ≠ 0) electronic configuration into iodate systems can also induce the formation of NCS compounds when the lone pairs of the iodate groups are properly aligned. The dn transition metal cations are normally octahedrally coordinated or in a square-planar coordination geometry. Furthermore, the combination of two different types of lone-pair-containing cations is also an effective strategy to design new SHG materials.
