Nanoscale intrinsic heterogeneities in Ag-Ge-Se glasses and their correlation with physical properties

Ag-Ge-Se glass forming system is dominated by liquid immiscibility. Glasses in the Se-GeSe₂-Ag₂Se triangle may have different morphologies according to their composition. In this work inhomogeneous morphology is observed in Ag_x(Ge_ySe_1−y)_100−x bulk glasses with y = 0.20, 0.25 at.% fraction. Electron microscopy reveals that the scale of heterogeneity strongly depends on the sample composition. The physical properties of these glasses are also dependent on their composition and can be easily correlated to their morphology. Accordingly, the electric conductivity evolves from semiconducting to ionic conductivity whereas a percolation transition occurs in a narrow Ag concentration range.Mössbauer spectrometry let us to analyse the local order of these intrinsically heterogeneous glasses employing ⁵⁷Fe as a probe.     

重金属碲酸盐玻璃中Ho~(3+)的红外辐射特性

制备了高折射率Ho3+单掺和Ho3+/Yb3+共掺低声子能量重金属碲酸盐玻璃.根据Judd-Ofelt理论对吸收光谱进行拟合,求得Ho3+强度参数Ωt(t=2,4,6)分别为4.373×10-20,1.906×10-20和1.451×10-20cm2,并进一步计算了Ho3+在红外区各能级跃迁的振子强度、自发辐射跃迁概率、辐射寿命和荧光分支比等光谱参数.982 nm激发下,铋碲酸盐玻璃中Yb3+直接敏化Ho3+,在红外区产生有效红外发射.Ho3+吸收与发射截面在1.95和2.05μm处分别高达5.63×10-21和6.24×10-21cm2,大于Ho3+掺杂磷酸盐和氟化物玻璃,这有利于降低激光抽运阈值,实现高效Ho3+激光输出.较低的声子能量和较大的发射截面表明,Ho3+/Yb3+共掺杂铋碲酸盐玻璃有望成为良好的红外激光工作物质.     

含Ho3+的GeO2-B2O3-BaO-Na2O-Al2O3锗酸盐玻璃的光谱与增益特性

用高温熔融法制备了不同Ho3+离子掺杂浓度65GeO2-12B2O-10BaO-10Na2O-3Al2O3-χHo2O3(χ=0.25,0.75,1.25mol%)锗酸盐玻璃。从吸收特性出发,应用McCumber理论计算了Ho3+离子能级5I8→5I7(~2.0μm)跃迁的吸收截面和5I7→5I8的受激发射截面。根据掺杂离子的浓度以及获得的吸收截面和受激发射截面得到Ho3+离子在此玻璃中的增益截面函数,从该函数可反映出材料的粒子数反转特性。获得的基本光学参数与其它掺杂的玻璃进行了比较,其吸收截面、发射截面和增益截面的最大值具有一定的优势。认为该玻璃在~2.0μm波段的中红外激光器中将有潜在的较大应用前景。     

Optical properties of glasses in the Li2O–MoO3–P2O5 system

Glasses xLi₂O–(50-x)(MoO₃)₂–50P₂O₅ with x = 10, 20, 30, and 40 mol% were prepared and their optical and electrical properties were investigated. Analysis of the IR spectra revealed that the Li⁺ ions act as a glass modifier that enter the glass network by breaking up other linkages and creating non-bridging oxygens in the network. The optical absorption edge of the glasses was measured for specimens in the form of thin blown films and the optical absorption spectra of those were recorded in the range 200–800 nm. From the optical absorption edges studies, the optical band gap (E _opt) and the Urbach energy (E _e) values have been evaluated by following the available semi-empirical theories. The linear variation of (αhν)^1/2 with hν, is taken as evidence of indirect interband transitions. The E _opt values were found to decrease with increasing Li₂O content by causing increase in the number of non-bridging oxygens in network. The Urbach tail analysis gives the width of localized states between 0.48 and 0.74 eV.     

Adsorption of O on Mo(110) surface from first-principles calculation

First-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) have been performed to study O adsorption in on-surface and subsurface sites. For different coverages, hollow site is found to be the most stable on-surface adsorption site. For the subsurface adsorption at the bare Mo surface, the adsorption energies are found to be higher than those at the on-surface sites, suggesting that these sites are less stable. However, the presence of preadsorbed O overlayer enhances the binding energy of subsurface adsorption, particularly for the adsorption of O at octahedral site. Further, vibrational frequencies, work-function and density of states are presented for O adsorption in on-surface sites.     

The Ghirlanda-Guerra Identities

If the variance of a Gaussian spin-glass Hamiltonian grows like the volume the model fulfills the Ghirlanda-Guerra identities in terms of the normalized Hamiltonian covariance.     

应用于2.1μm激光的Tm~(3+)/Ho~(3+)共掺氟碲酸盐微结构光纤研究

采用棒管法制备了低羟基含量的Tm~(3+)/Ho~(3+)共掺氟碲酸盐微结构光纤。当使用波长为1 560 nm的激光器泵浦Tm~(3+)/Ho~(3+)共掺光纤时,处于Tm~(3+)基态3H6的电子被激发至3F4能级,进一步通过Tm~(3+)和Ho~(3+)间的能量传递过程3F4→3H6(Tm~(3+)):5I8→5I7(Ho~(3+))(能量失配为745 cm-1)布居Ho~(3+)的5I7能级,5I7能级上的电子向5I8能级跃迁发射出2.1μm的光。使用1 560 nm光纤激光器作为泵浦源,18 cm长的Tm~(3+)/Ho~(3+)氟碲酸盐微结构光纤作为增益介质,获得了波长为2 063 nm的激光输出。所得激光的斜率效率为12.9%,激光阈值为163 m W,未饱和的最大输出功率为40 m W。研究结果表明,Tm~(3+)/Ho~(3+)共掺氟碲酸盐微结构光纤可用于制作2.1μm光纤激光器。     

Effects of laser irradiation on optical properties of a-Se100−x Te x thin films

The effect of laser irradiation on the optical properties of thermally evaporated Se_100?x Te _x (x=8, 12, 16) chalcogenide thin films has been studied. The result shows that the irradiation causes a shift in the optical gap. The results have been analyzed on the basis of laser irradiation-induced defects in the film. The width of the tail of localized state in the band gap has been evaluated using the Urbach edge method. As the irradiation time increases, the values of the optical energy gap for all compositions decrease, while tail energy width increases. It is also observed that the optical energy gap decreases with increasing Te content in the alloy. These changes are a consequence of an increment in disorder produced by laser irradiation in the amorphous structure of thin film.     

Defect influence on charge transport in chalcogenide glasses

Abstract

Conductivity of chalcogenide glasses was measured as a function of temperature (290–340 K) and frequency (10^?4–10^?1 Hz). Frequency dependence of conductivity can be approximated by a power law G～ω^s (S < 1). The relaxation maximum of dielectric losses was found. The dielectric constant ? decreases with frequency rise. The obtained results are discussed in terms of the defect structure model.     

Numerical simulation of flat-tip micro-indentation of glassy polymers: Influence of loading speed and thermodynamic state

Flat-tip micro-indentation tests were performed on quenched and annealed polymer glasses at various loading speeds. The results were analyzed using an elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model that captures the intrinsic deformation characteristics of a polymer glass: a strain-rate dependent yield stress, strain softening and strain hardening. The advantage of this model is that changes in yield stress due to physical aging are captured in a single parameter. The two materials studied (polycarbonate (PC) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)) were both selected for the specific rate-dependence of the yield stress that they display at room temperature. Within the range of strain rates experimentally covered, the yield stress of PC increases linearly with the logarithm of strain rate, whereas, for PMMA, a characteristic change in slope can be observed at higher strain rates. We demonstrate that, given the proper definition of the viscosity function, the flat-tip indentation response at different indentation speeds can be described accurately for both materials. Moreover, it is shown that the model captures the mechanical response on the microscopic scale (indentation) as well as on the macroscopic scale with the same parameter set. This offers promising possibilities of extracting mechanical properties of polymer glasses directly from indentation experiments.