Table 4 Comparison between the DFPT values from the NLO DB and experimental ones for the relevant diα components of some well-known nonlinear optical crystals as collected in ref. 11.

From: Second-harmonic generation tensors from high-throughput density-functional perturbation theory

Formula

MP-id

Point group

\(| {{\boldsymbol{d}}}_{{\boldsymbol{i}}{\boldsymbol{\alpha }}}^{{\bf{Exp}}{\boldsymbol{}}.}| \) (pm/V)

\(| {{\boldsymbol{d}}}_{{\boldsymbol{i}}{\boldsymbol{\alpha }}}^{{\bf{DFPT}}}| \) (pm/V)

\(| {{\boldsymbol{d}}}_{{\boldsymbol{i}}{\boldsymbol{\alpha }}}^{{\bf{DFPT}}}-{{\boldsymbol{d}}}_{{\boldsymbol{i}}{\boldsymbol{\alpha }}}^{{\bf{Exp}}.}| /{{\boldsymbol{d}}}_{{\boldsymbol{i}}{\boldsymbol{\alpha }}}^{{\bf{Exp}}.}\)

Ba(BO2)2

mp-5730

3m

d22(1.064 μm) = 2.20

d22 = 3.01

36.32%

   

d15(1.064 μm) = 0.04

d15 = 0.05

25.00%

   

d33(1.064 μm) = 0.04

d33 = 0.14

250.00%

LiB3O5

mp-3660

mm2

d31(1.0642 μm) = 0.67

d31 = 0.88

31.34%

   

d32(1.0642 μm) = 0.85

d32 = 1.10

29.41%

   

d33(1.0642 μm) = 0.04

d33 = 0.12

200.00%

LiNbO3

mp-3731

3m

d22(1.064 μm) = 2.10

d22 = 1.72

18.10%

   

d15(1.064 μm) = 4.35

d15 = 8.66

99.08%

   

d33(1.064 μm) = 27.20

d33 = 28.19

3.64%

KTiPO5

mp-6268

mm2

d31(1.313 μm) = 1.40

d31 = 1.72

22.86%

   

d32(1.313 μm) = 2.60

d32 = 3.68

41.54%

   

d33(1.313 μm) = 11.1

d33 = 11.87

6.94%

GaAgS2

mp-5342

\(\bar{4}2m\)

d36(10.6 μm) = 12.50

d36 = 20.16

61.28%

GaAgSe2

mp-5518

\(\bar{4}2m\)

d36(10.591 μm) = 39.50

d36 = 63.86

61.67%

ZnGeP2

mp-4524

\(\bar{4}2m\)

d36(10.591 μm) = 68.90

d36 = 105.90

53.70%