Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2008-10-30
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 354 (2008) 3592-3596
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2008.03.018
Two series of Sm-, Gd-codoped aluminoborosilicate glasses with different total rare earth content have been studied in order to examine the codoping effect on the structural modifications of beta-irradiated glasses. The data obtained by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy indicated that relative amount of Gd3+ ions located in network former position reveals non-linear dependence on Sm/Gd ratio. Besides, codoping leads to the evolution of the EPR signal attributed to defects created by irradiation: superhyperfine structure of boron oxygen hole centres EPR line becomes less noticeable and resolved with increase of Gd amount. This fact manifests that Gd3+ ions are mainly diluted in vicinity of the boron network. By Raman spectroscopy, we showed that the structural changes induced by the irradiation also reveal non-linear behaviour with Sm/Gd ratio. In fact, the shift of the Si-O-Si bending vibration modes has a clear minimum for the samples containing equal amount of Sm and Gd (50:50) in both series of the investigated glasses. In contrast, for single doped glass there is no influence of dopant's content on Si-O-Si shift (in case of Gd) or its diminution (in case of Sm) occurs which is explained by the reduction process influence. At the same time, no noticeable effect of codoping on Sm3+ intensity as well as on Sm2+ emission or on Sm reduction process was observed.
Boizot Bruno
Ghaleb Dominique
Malchukova Evguenia
Petite Guillaume
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