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Narrow-bandgap materials for optoelectronics applications

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Narrow-bandgap materials possess the intriguing optical-electric properties and unique structures, which can be widely applied in the field of photonics, energy optoelectronic sensing and biomedicine, etc. Nowadays, the researches on nonlinear optical properties of narrow-bandgap materials have attracted extensive attention worldwide. In this paper, we review the progress of narrow-bandgap materials from many aspects, such as background, nonlinear optical properties, energy band structure, methods of preparation, and applications. These materials have obvious nonlinear optical characteristics and the interaction with the short pulse laser excitation shows the extremely strong nonlinear absorption characteristics, which leads to the optical limiting or saturable absorption related to Pauli blocking and excited state absorption. Especially, some of these novel narrow-bandgap materials have been utilized for the generation of ultrashort pulse that covers the range from the visible to mid-infrared wavelength regions. Hence, the study on these materials paves a new way for the advancement of optoelctronics devices.

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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61605106, 61875138, 61435010, and 6181101252); the International Science & Technology Cooperation and Exchanges Project of Shaanxi (No. 2020KW-005); Funded projects for the Academic Leader and Academic Backbones, Shaanxi Normal University (No. 18QNGG006); Starting Grants of Shaanxi Normal University (Grant Nos. 1112010209 and 1110010717); Fundamental Research Funds For the Central Universities (No. GK201802006); and the Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. SKLST201809).

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    Xiao-Hui Li, Yi-Xuan Guo, Yujie Ren, Jia-Jun Peng & Ji-Shu Liu

  2. Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Two-Dimensional Materials and Devices/Shenzhen Engineering Laboratory of Phosphorene and Optoelectronics, Collaborative Innovation Center for Optoelectronic Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong, Shenzhen, 518060, China

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Li, XH., Guo, YX., Ren, Y. et al. Narrow-bandgap materials for optoelectronics applications. Front. Phys. 17, 13304 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-021-1055-z

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