Cerium and boron chemistry in doped borosilicate glasses examined by EELS |
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Authors: | Yang G Möbus G Hand R J |
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Institution: | Department of Engineering Materials, ISL, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK. |
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Abstract: | Spatially resolved measurements of boron coordination and cerium valency in a doped borosilicate glass with crystalline nano-precipitates are described. The fine structure of the boron K-edge and the white-line ratio of the cerium M-edge doublet were evaluated from EELS line scans. Due to high beam sensitivity it was found that reliable boron-coordination measurements in some of the glasses studied required extrapolation of results acquired after different periods of irradiation back to a zero-irradiation. However, borosilicates that contained heavy alkali atoms were found to suffer very little structural change. The Ce valency of a 4% (molar) doped alkali-borosilicate glass was found to be mixed +III/+IV in the glass matrix and purely +IV (indicative of CeO2) in the precipitates. A significant dependency of the valence results on the data processing method was found and explained. |
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