Bowron, D.T. and Bushnell-Wye, G. and Newport, R.J. and Rainford, B.D. and Saunders, G.A. (1996) X-ray diffraction studies of rare-earth metaphosphate glasses. Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, 8 (19). pp. 3337-3346. ISSN 0953-8984.
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Abstract
X-ray diffraction measurements have been performed at the Synchrotron Radiation Source, Daresbury, UK, in a structural study of the rare-earth metaphosphate glasses (Pr2O3)(0.216)(P2O5)(0.794), (Eu2O3)(0.252)(P2O5)(0.748) and (Tb2O3)(0.26)(P2O5)(0.74), whose compositions were determined by electron microprobe analysis. Such rare-earth metaphosphate glasses R(PO3)(3) containing high concentrations of rare-earth R(3+) ions are of growing interest in fundamental studies of magnetic glasses and in optical communications and laser technologies. The diffraction results prove to be consistent with a network model which is dominated by a phosphate glass skeleton having three-dimensional connectivity, constructed from PO4 tetrahedra linked to adjacent tetrahedra via bridging oxygen atoms. Results relating to rare-earth-oxygen correlations are consistent with a sixfold to eightfold coordination of the rare-earth atoms, with distances showing the trends expected from the lanthanide contraction: a reduction of the rare-earth ionic radii with increasing atomic number.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Physical Sciences > Functional Materials Group |
| Depositing User: | J.M. Smith |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2009 15:48 |
| Last Modified: | 09 May 2012 09:31 |
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