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Main Authors: Zhao, Boyang, Mei, Hongyan, Du, Zhengyu, Singh, Shantanu, Chang, Tieyan, Li, Jiaheng, Settineri, Nicholas S., Teat, Simon J., Chen, Yu-Sheng, Cronin, Stephen B., Kats, Mikhail A., Ravichandran, Jayakanth
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02323
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author Zhao, Boyang
Mei, Hongyan
Du, Zhengyu
Singh, Shantanu
Chang, Tieyan
Li, Jiaheng
Settineri, Nicholas S.
Teat, Simon J.
Chen, Yu-Sheng
Cronin, Stephen B.
Kats, Mikhail A.
Ravichandran, Jayakanth
author_facet Zhao, Boyang
Mei, Hongyan
Du, Zhengyu
Singh, Shantanu
Chang, Tieyan
Li, Jiaheng
Settineri, Nicholas S.
Teat, Simon J.
Chen, Yu-Sheng
Cronin, Stephen B.
Kats, Mikhail A.
Ravichandran, Jayakanth
contents Polarimetric infrared detection bolsters IR thermography by leveraging the polarization of light. Optical anisotropy, i.e., birefringence and dichroism, can be leveraged to achieve polarimetric detection. Recently, giant optical anisotropy was discovered in quasi-1D narrow-bandgap hexagonal perovskite sulfides, A1+xTiS3, specifically BaTiS3[1,2] and Sr9/8TiS3[3,4]. In these materials, the critical role of atomic-scale structure modulations[4,5] in the unconventional electrical[5,6], optical[7,8], and thermal[7,9] properties raises the broader question of other materials that belong to this family. To address this issue, for the first time, we synthesized high-quality single crystals of a largely unexplored member of the A1+xTiX3 (X = S, Se) family, BaTiSe3. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction determined the room-temperature structure with the P31c space group, which is a superstructure of the earlier reported[10] P63/mmc structure. The crystal structure of BaTiSe3 features antiparallel c-axis displacements similar to BaTiS3,[2] but is of lower symmetry. Polarization-resolved Raman and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy were used to characterize the optical anisotropy of BaTiSe3, whose refractive index along the ordinary (perpendicular to c) and extraordinary (parallel to c) optical axes was quantitatively determined by combining ellipsometry studies with FTIR. With a giant birefringence Δn~0.9, BaTiSe3 emerges as a new candidate for miniaturized birefringent optics for mid-wave infrared to long-wave infrared imaging.
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spellingShingle Infrared Optical Anisotropy in Quasi-1D Hexagonal Chalcogenide BaTiSe3
Zhao, Boyang
Mei, Hongyan
Du, Zhengyu
Singh, Shantanu
Chang, Tieyan
Li, Jiaheng
Settineri, Nicholas S.
Teat, Simon J.
Chen, Yu-Sheng
Cronin, Stephen B.
Kats, Mikhail A.
Ravichandran, Jayakanth
Materials Science
Polarimetric infrared detection bolsters IR thermography by leveraging the polarization of light. Optical anisotropy, i.e., birefringence and dichroism, can be leveraged to achieve polarimetric detection. Recently, giant optical anisotropy was discovered in quasi-1D narrow-bandgap hexagonal perovskite sulfides, A1+xTiS3, specifically BaTiS3[1,2] and Sr9/8TiS3[3,4]. In these materials, the critical role of atomic-scale structure modulations[4,5] in the unconventional electrical[5,6], optical[7,8], and thermal[7,9] properties raises the broader question of other materials that belong to this family. To address this issue, for the first time, we synthesized high-quality single crystals of a largely unexplored member of the A1+xTiX3 (X = S, Se) family, BaTiSe3. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction determined the room-temperature structure with the P31c space group, which is a superstructure of the earlier reported[10] P63/mmc structure. The crystal structure of BaTiSe3 features antiparallel c-axis displacements similar to BaTiS3,[2] but is of lower symmetry. Polarization-resolved Raman and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy were used to characterize the optical anisotropy of BaTiSe3, whose refractive index along the ordinary (perpendicular to c) and extraordinary (parallel to c) optical axes was quantitatively determined by combining ellipsometry studies with FTIR. With a giant birefringence Δn~0.9, BaTiSe3 emerges as a new candidate for miniaturized birefringent optics for mid-wave infrared to long-wave infrared imaging.
title Infrared Optical Anisotropy in Quasi-1D Hexagonal Chalcogenide BaTiSe3
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02323