Birefringent Color Filter by Layered Metal‐Organic Chalcogenides: In‐Plane Anisotropy and Odd/Even Effect (Advanced Optical Materials 9/2025)
Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Composites In article 2402159, Leslie H. Allen and co-workers reveal the birefringence in large single crystal silver alkanethiolate (AgSCn), as a result of in-plane structural anisotropy. The material is a promising candidate for pixels used in intelligent display. Therefore, the cover design starts with a screen display (with picture of flowers) and a single pixel is enlarged. In each pixel, an AgSCn crystal (the atomic structure cartoon) is sandwiched between two crossed polarizers. With such setup, the color of crystal (pictures taken on real samples on the right) exhibits dramatic change from blue to orange, and to purple simply by crystal rotation. A pixelated background was added to allude to the pixels in the display.
Authors
- S.J. McCormack (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0715-3451)
- Zichao Ye (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8435-8346)
- Mikhail Y. Efremov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6379-9433)
- Waltraud M. Kriven (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2983-5760)
- Kisung Kang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1539-6795)
- Jie Zhao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8871-984X)
- L. H. Allen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9323-3767)
- André Schleife (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0496-8214)
- Jian‐Min Zuo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5151-3370)
- Yu‐Tsun Shao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5574-0490)
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Optical Materials
- Published
- 2025-03-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202570073
- Primary Topic
- Nonlinear Optical Materials Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00