Shedding light on the optical and nonlinear optical properties of superalkali-doped borophene.

ABSTRACT

The present investigation highlights the two-dimensional design of several interesting superalkali-doped borophene derivatives for efficient nonlinear optics (NLO). The combination effects and resulting NLO responses of borophene (B36) and superalkali units (Li3O) were evaluated by orienting superalkali clusters at various sites, such as the hub, rim, and bridge, around an B36 molecule. The charge analysis was characterized by frontier and natural bond orbital analyses, a narrowed HOMO-LUMO bandgap and greater intramolecular charge transfers. Molecular electrostatic potential surfaces demonstrated enhanced optoelectronic features of these complexes that are viable due to Li3O adsorption. Singly doped and doubly doped complexes were considered, and their NLO properties were calculated. Bandgap energy was reduced approximately threefold when doped with two Li3O. As a considerably high figure of merit, first hyperpolarizability (ßo) values of up to five digits (including 10,611 au for complex A) prove that these systems can be utilized as promising candidates in various NLO applications.