{
  "id": 19272624,
  "title": "Sogang University team develops new strategy for designing high-performance optical materials",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/sogang-university-team-develops-new-strategy-for-designing-high-19272624",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-10T03:02:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/education/20261110/sogang-university-team-develops-new-strategy-for-designing-high-performance-optical-materials"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Sogang University researchers have devised a novel approach to designing high-performance optical materials that can efficiently convert wavelengths. The team's discovery, published in the prestigious Journal of the American Chemical Society, involves carefully arranging three distinct optically active components within a single crystal structure. Led by Professor Ok Kang-min from the Department of Chemistry and Professor Jang Joon-ik from the Department of Physics, the research was spearheaded by postdoctoral researcher Zeng Wei in the Chemistry Department. The newly developed nonlinear optical materials have the ability to transform laser light into different wavelengths, enabling a wide array of applications including high-performance lasers, precision optical measurements, optical communications, and advanced photonic technologies. However, creating superior optical performance necessitates more than just combining components that strongly respond to specific wavelengths.",
  "summary": "A joint research team at Sogang University has developed a new strategy for designing optical materials that enable efficient wavelength conversion by effectively arranging three different optically active components within a single crystal. The university said Monday that the findings were published last month in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, an internationally renowned chemistry…",
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}