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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