Abstract
Exploring novel functional materials via chemical substitution-oriented design is an emerging strategy. The method can be expanded to the discovery of high performance ultraviolet (UV) nonlinear optical (NLO) solid state materials by a careful tuning of the substituted atoms. This minireview presents a brief introduction to chemical substitution-oriented design including single-site substitution, dual-site substitution, and multisite substitution. Several state-of-the-art UV NLO materials such as K(3)VO(O(2))(2)CO(3)-type, KBe(2)BO(3)F(2) (KBBF)-type, Ca(5)(PO(4))(3)(OH)-type, and KTiOPO(4) (KTP)-type phases successfully discovered by the chemical substitution method are discussed.