Optoelectronic and nonlinear optical properties of Lu doped AgGaGe3Se8 crystallites

TL;DR

This paper investigates the optoelectronic, nonlinear optical, and laser-stimulated piezoelectric properties of pure and doped AgGaGe3Se8 crystallites, emphasizing the influence of morphology and surface states on their functionalities.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of the nonlinear optical and piezoelectric properties of Lu-doped AgGaGe3Se8, highlighting the role of morphology and surface states in these effects.

Findings

Morphology significantly affects nonlinear optical and piezoelectric responses.

Surface states contribute comparably to bulk effects in the studied crystallites.

Temperature influences optoelectronic and nonlinear properties.

Abstract

A complex studies of optoelectronics, non-linear optical and laser stimulated piezoelectric features of chalcogenide powder-like chalcogenide crystals pure and rare earth doped AgGaGe3 Se8 crystallites are presented. It is shown principal role of the morphology for the titled materials. The contribution to nonlinear optical, photoconductivity and laser stimulated piezoelectricity are comparable. The temperature dependences are explored. The possibilityity to operate by the features of the titled crystallites in the optically reflected regime is shown. This may be important for laser operated triggers, modulators, photo detectors etc. The relaxation processes are studied. Among the NLO features main attention is devoted to second harmonic generation efficiencies in the reflected regime where principal role is played by morphology. Additionally the laser stimulated piezoelectric for the near the surface states with different morphology of grains is explored. It is demonstrated that contribution of the near-the surface states for such kind of effects will be commensurable to the bulk-like contribution.