Structural characterisation of tin fluorophosphate glasses doped with Er2O3
Structural characterisation of tin fluorophosphate glasses doped with Er2O3
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DOI:
10.13036/17533562.57.1.069
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发表时间:
2016-02-01
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0.6
通讯作者:
Kovalskiy, A.
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作者:
Trimble, J.;Golovchak, R.;Kovalskiy, A.
EXAFS and confocal Raman microscopy have been used to study 50SnF(2)center dot(20-x)SnO center dot 30P(2)O(5)center dot xEr(2)O(3) (x=0, 0.1, 0.25) glasses. EXAFS data reveal an average coordination of Sn to O of 1.5 in both undoped glass and Er-doped glass samples. The first coordination sphere of Er in glasses doped with Er2O3 was found to have 9 F atom neighbours at an average bond length of 2.292 +/- 0.005 angstrom, indicating that Er preferentially bonds with F. Raman spectra clearly show the emergence of orthophosphate Q(0) units on addition of Er2O3. The saturation of Er solubility is found to be between 0.25 and 0.5 mol% Er2O3. An increase of the glass transition temperature from similar to 80 degrees C in undoped glass to similar to 87 degrees C in samples doped with 0.25 mol% Er2O3 was also observed. This process is accompanied by an increase in the difference between the crystallisation and glass transition temperatures, which is usually associated with improved thermal stability of the glass.