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Structural studies of lithium triborate (LBO-LiB3O5) in borophosphate glass-ceramics

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INORGANIC MATERIALS, 3 (7): 829-838 (2001)
DOI: 10.1016/S1466-6049(01)00172-6

Abstract

In this paper lithium borophosphate glasses and glass-ceramics in the system 0.75 textbackslash xB(2)O(3).(100-x)P2O5textbackslash .25Li(2)O.yFe(2)O(3) with 0 less than or equal tox:less than or equal to 100 mol.% and y=4 mol.%, were studied by X-ray powder diffraction, Mossbauer and infrared spectroscopy. All the samples in the system present a glass or glass-ceramic behavior which was confirmed by X-ray diffraction. From our Mossbauer analysis, high spin Fe2+ and Fe3+ in a distorted octahedral coordination are present in all samples. One can conclude that both iron ions are at sites of distorted octahedral coordination, acting as network modifiers (NWM) in a very broad site distribution, which is characteristic of an amorphous structural neighborhood. Such glasses and glass-ceramics containing nonlinear optical materials formed in a controlled crystallization process would be interesting candidates for applications in new nonlinear optical devices. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

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