Effect of Dopants on Zirconia Stabilization—An X-ray Absorption Study: I, Trivalent Dopants

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Tellurite and fluorotellurite glasses for fiberoptic Raman amplifiers: glass characterization, optical properties, Raman gain, preliminary fiberization, and fiber characterization

In this study we report the physical properties and spontaneous Raman scattering spectra of nine oxide tellurite and fluorotellurite glasses from three glass systems—sodium–zinc–tellurite (TZN), tungsten–tellurite, and fluorotellurite..

Structure of GeO2−P2O5GeO_{2}-P_{2}O_{5} glasses studied by x-ray and neutron diffraction

The structures of three xGeO(2)-(1- x)P(2)O(5) glasses, where x = 0.98,0.88, and 0.81, have been studied by neutron and x-ray diffraction experiments that yield well resolved P-O and Ge-O bond distances. The Ge-O coordination number (N(GeO)) increased from 4.0 ± 0.2 to 4.5 ± 0.2 with the decrease in x from 0.98 to 0.81. The increase in N(GeO) is consistent with a structural model that assumes that all oxygen form Ge-O-Ge and P-O-Ge linkages between Ge polyhedra and P tetrahedra and that new GeO(5) or GeO(6) polyhedra are formed with isolated PO(4) units when P(2)O(5) is added to GeO(2). The bond valencies in the P-O bonds of the PO(4) tetrahedra are greater than unity and are balanced in P-O-Ge bridges with underbonded Ge-O links in the GeO(5) or GeO(6) polyhedra. Mixed site connections are expected for the GeO(5) (or GeO(6)) and PO(4) units in glasses with relatively low (<20 mol%) P(2)O(5) content due to the overwhelming fraction of GeO(4) tetrahedra. The structural changes are compared with those reported for alkali germanate glasses. Several features indicate different characteristics for the compositional dependence of N(GeO) for the GeO(2)-P(2)O(5) and alkali germanate glasses. However, the distributions of the first-neighbour Ge-O distances are found to be nearly identical for the GeO(2)-P(2)O(5) and K(2)O-GeO(2) glasses of equimolar K(2)O and P(2)O(5) content

Short-range order and dynamics in crystalline α-TeO2

The short-range order and dynamics in crystalline α-TeO2 have been investigated by neutron and X-ray total scattering and by Rietveld refinement of neutron diffraction data. The true lengths of the two bonds in a Te–O–Te bridge are 1.882(1) and 2.117(1) Å, and the high valence, 1.293, of the strong, short bond is balanced by the low valence, 0.686, of the weak, long bond. The root-mean-square (rms) thermal variation, 0.083(1) Å, in the long bond length is nearly twice the rms thermal variation, 0.048(1) Å, in the short bond length because the largest motion of both Te and O atoms is perpendicular to the short bonds. A bond-valence model for the thermal variation in bond lengths, in which both the average and the instantaneous positions of the atoms conform to bond-valence requirements, accounts closely for the observed distribution of Te–O distances in α-TeO2. This has important implications for the interpretation of diffraction experiments on tellurite glasses

Effect of Dopants on Zirconia Stabilization—An X-ray Absorption Study: II, Tetravalent Dopants

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