The Structon Theory, Applied to Borate Glasses

Doped Zinc Lithium Bismuth Borate Glasses

Zinc lithium bismuth borate glasses containing Er in (25x): Bi2O3:20Li2O:20ZnO: 35B2O3:xEr2O3 (where x=1, 1.5,2 mol %) have been prepared by melt-quenching method. The amorphous nature of the glasses was confirmed by x-ray diffraction studies. Optical absorption and fluorescence spectra were recorded at room temperature for all glass samples. Judd-Ofelt intensity parameters Ωλ (λ=2, 4, 6) are e...

Mechanical Properties of Alkali Borate Glasses

A GLASS is, formally, a solid that solidifies without a well-defined melting point— defined as a singular temperature at which there occurs a discontinuous change in a physical property, for example specific volume, during transition between a liquid state and its corresponding solid state—but instead exhibits a continuous change in that property over a range of temperature. Glasses tend to inh...

Dielectric dispersion in lithiumebismuth-borate glasses

ions doped zinc bismuth borate glasses

Glasses having composition 20ZnO·xBi2O3·(79-x)B2O3 (15 x 35, in mol%) doped with 1 mol% of Nd 3+ ions were prepared. The different physical and absorption spectral properties have been investigated to understand the variation of the hypersensitive absorption band intensities. From the absorption spectra, Judd-Ofelt intensity parameters, ( = 2, 4, 6) have been calculated and these parameters wer...

The glass transition temperature of silicate and borate glasses

The dependence of the glass transition temperature on silicate composition as well as on borate composition is discussed. Some new experimental results on borosilicate glass-enamels are put together with the existing literature data. It is demonstrated that in the glass transition interval the activation energy E(Tg) for viscous flow is related to the glass transition temperature. The activatio...