Cd1.17Zn0.83B2O5, a new cadmium zinc diborate

✍ Scribed by Yuan, Xin ;Wang, Ru-Ji ;Shen, De-Zhong ;Wang, Xiao-Qing ;Shen, Guang-Qiu

• Book ID: 104484904
• Publisher: International Union of Crystallography
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 192 KB
• Volume: 61
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1600-5368
• DOI: 10.1107/s1600536805024608

✦ Synopsis

Crystals of cadmium zinc diborate, Cd 1.17 Zn 0.83 B 2 O 5 , have been obtained by spontaneous nucleation in a platinum crucible at 1072 K. The crystal structure exhibits diborate groups, B 2 O 5 4À , sharing O atoms with considerably distorted M1O 6 octahedra and M2O 4 tetrahedra. Both metal centers are disordered in the proportion Cd:Zn = 0.92:0.08 on the M1 site and Cd:Zn = 0.25:0.75 on the M2 site. A strong secondharmonic generation has been observed for the title compound when excited with an Nd:YAG laser ( = 1064 nm).