Photonic and Electronic Properties of Fluoride Materials: Progress in Fluorine Science Series

Photonic and Electronic Properties of Fluoride Materials: Progress in Fluorine Science, the first volume in this new Elsevier series, provides an overview of the important optical, magnetic, and non-linear properties of fluoride materials. Beginning with a brief review of relevant synthesis methods from single crystals to nanopowders, this volume offers valuable insight for inorganic chemistry and materials science researchers. Edited and written by leaders in the field, this book explores the practical aspects of working with these materials, presenting a large number of examples from inorganic fluorides in which the type of bonding occurring between fluorine and transition metals (either d- or 4f-series) give rise to peculiar properties in many fundamental and applicative domains. This one-of-a-kind resource also includes several chapters covering functional organic fluorides used in nano-electronics, in particular in liquid crystal devices, in organic light-emitting diodes, or in organic dyes for sensitized solar cells. The book describes major advances and breakthroughs achieved by the use of fluoride materials in important domains such as superconductivity, luminescence, laser properties, multiferroism, transport properties, and more recently, in fluoro-perovskite for dye-sensitized solar cells and inorganic fluoride materials for NLO, and supports future development in these varied and key areas. The book is edited by Alain Tressaud, past chair and founder of the CNRS French Fluorine Network. Each book in the collection includes the work of highly-respected volume editors and contributors from both academia and industry to bring valuable and varied content to this active field.

Provides unique coverage of the physical properties of fluoride materials for chemists and material scientistsBegins with a brief review of relevant synthesis methods from single crystals to nanopowdersIncludes valuable information about functional organic fluorides used in nano-electronics, in particular in liquid crystal devices, in organic light-emitting diodes, or in organic dyes for sensitized solar cells

1. Introduction to the Series “Progress in Fluorine Science”

Part One. Synthesis

2. Elaboration of Nanofluorides and Ceramics for Optical and Laser Applications

Part Two. Optical Properties

3. Upconversion Phenomena in Nanofluorides

4. Optical Properties of Fluoride Transparent Ceramics

5. Synthesis and Characterization of F-Doped Zinc Oxides, Al-Doped Zinc Hydroxyfluoride, and Oxide–Fluoride Composites for Transparent Visible/Infrared Absorbers

6. Fluorine-Containing Beryllium Borates as Nonlinear Optical Crystals for Deep-Ultraviolet Laser Generation

7. Fluorescence in Nanostructured Oxyfluoride Glasses Doped with Rare Earth Ions

8. Fluorinated Nematic Liquid Crystals: Design, Synthesis, and Properties

9. Molecular Engineering of F-Based Iridium(III) Complexes as a Phosphorescent Emitter

10. Zinc Hydroxyfluoride (ZnOHF) Nanostructure as Photoelectrode of Quantum Dot-Sensitized Solar Cells

Part Three. Magnetic Properties

11. Molecular Fluoride-Bridged 3d-4f Complexes and Their Magnetic Properties

12. Unique Silver(II) Fluorides: The Emerging Electronic and Magnetic Materials

13. Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Fluoride Perovskites

14. Multiferroism in Fluorides

Part Four. Non-linear Properties

15. Frequency-Doubling Oxide Fluorides, Borate Fluorides, and Fluorooxoborates

16. Ferroelastic and Ferroelectric Phase Transitions in Fluoro- and Oxyfluorometallates

17. Group Theoretical Approach on Possible Magnetoelectric Fluorides

Part Five. Superconductor Properties

18. Modification of Magnetic and Electronic Properties, in Particular Superconductivity, by Low Temperature Insertion of Fluorine into Oxides

19. Superconductivity in Iron Oxypnictide Induced by F-Doping

Part Six. Ionic Conductors

20. Ionic Conductivity of Nanocrystalline Metal Fluorides

21. Nonstoichiometric Single Crystals M1−xRxF2+x and R1−yMyF3−y (M =Ca, Sr, Ba: R=Rare Earth Elements) as Fluorine-Ionic Conductive Solid Electrolytes