What do you picture when you think of lasers? Laser pointers? Perhaps laser eye surgery or barcode scanners? Turns out there’s more to lasers than most people realize, and a Wichita State University chemistry team recently discovered a new series of laser material with potential commercial use.
Vivian Nguyen, a recent graduate of WSU, and Dr. Jian Wang Nguyen, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, discovered new laser materials (KX)P2S6(X=Sb, Bi, Ba) made up of many important elements. That discovery has landed their research in Chemical Science, the flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.