Glasses and glass-ceramics (GCs) used for sealing, coating and high voltage applications belong to a special class of materials in which among other requirements, matching of thermal expansion coefficient with that of metal as closely as possible up to set temperature is an important consideration. In this paper I shall concentrate on some indigenous efforts carried out in my laboratory on the ...

Introduction: The increasing sophistication of the industries requiring optical thin films from unconventional materials calls for alternative fabrication methods. Thin film for use in broadband and narrowband filtering applications, including dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), optical amplification, switching, modulation of light signals, grating based devices, infrared light trans...

Transparent bubble free phosphate glasses with composition 50P2O5-10Al2O3-20CaO-(20-x)Na2O-xCeO2 (x varying from 0 to 4 mol %) have been prepared using melt quenching technique. The amorphous nature of the prepared glass samples has been confirmed from XRD spectra. The optical absorption coefficient has been determined from the UVvisible absorption spectra. The prepared glass samples have been ...

 Oxyfluoride glass ceramics containing CaF2nano-crystals doped with Y3+ ions were prepared by one-step crystallization of SiO2- Al2O3- CaO- CaF2 glasses at different temperatures. X- ray diffraction (XRD) results have revealed that CaF2 was the only precipitated crystalline phase in glass ceramic samples. According to the XRD results, a glass ceramic was selected as the best sample in order to ...

Introduction: Compositions of many of the >100 lunar pyroclastic deposits identified remotely are poorly constrained. In addition, the absorption properties of glasses, which are ubiquitous in all regolith samples, strongly influence spectra of lunar soil and hence spectral remote sensing data of the lunar surface [1,2]. Previous spectral studies of lunar synthetic glasses have not reproduced a...

Fourier transform infra red (FTIR) and energy band gap of potassium lithium borate glasses of different composition have been studied using Fourier FTIR and UV-VIS spectroscopy techniques. The glasses were melted in the alumina crucible in an electric furnace at 1100°C for 30 min until homogenous melt was obtained. The X-ray diffraction analysis was adopted for confirming the amorphous nature o...

The density of optical glass varies from 2.39 for N-BK10 to 6.03 for SF66. In most cases glasses with higher densities also have higher refractive indices (e.g. SF type glasses). The density is mainly determined by the chemical composition of the glass. To a small amount the density is influenced by the annealing conditions of the glass near the transformation temperature. Due to the thermal ex...

Fluorescence photobleaching was measured in dye-impregnated sol–gel/polymer composite glasses. These fluorescent glasses were used as the gain medium in a transverse-pumped solid-state dye laser. In this configuration, the fluorescent glass was excited by a pulsed Nd:YAG laser (about 6 mJ/pulse) either while placed in an optical cavity (i.e., functioning as a pulsed laser) or with the optical c...

Optical glasses from SCHOTT are well-known for their very low striae content. Even in raw production formats, such as blocks or strips, requirements for the most demanding optical systems are met. Striae intensity is thickness dependent. Hence, in finished lenses or prisms with short optical path lengths, the striae effects will decrease to levels where they can be neglected completely, i.e. th...