title: First-principles study of the ferroelectric and nonlinear optical properties of the LiNbO3-type ZnSnO3.
abstract: Electronic structures, spontaneous polarization, dynamical and nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of polar oxide ZnSnO(3) with LiNbO(3) (LN)-type structure have been investigated in the framework of density functional theory. By analyzing the Born effectives of LN-type ZnSnO(3), we find that Z* of Zn atoms show relatively large anomalous behavior. The spontaneous polarization is attributed to the large displacement of Zn atoms because of the mixed ionic-covalent character between the Zn-O bonds. The optical dielectric tensor is nearly the same; however the static dielectric tensor shows strongly anisotropy. Furthermore, the nonlinear optical properties are calculated by using 2n + 1 theorem applied to an electric-field dependent energy functional. The large dielectric constants and NLO susceptibilities indicate that the LN-type ZnSnO(3) would be a candidate as a high-performance dielectric and nonlinear optical material.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Z L
authors.initials: ZL
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: G Y
authors.initials: GY
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Z Y
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Fan