(1) Institute of Chemistry, Far East Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok
Abstract:
Images of cleaved surfaces were obtained for 53ZrF4-20BaF2-4LaF3-3AlF3-20NaF (ZBLAN) glasses and fused quartz using an NTMDT atomic force microscope. It is shown that the scatter of particle size depends on the cooling rate and is 21–48.5 Å for the cleaved surface of ZBLAN glass obtained by very fast cooling and 68–172 Å for the cleaved surface of ZBLAN after slow cooling. For cleaved fused quartz, the range is 25-18 Å.