Mixed alkali environment in chalcohalide glasses for optical applications

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Heavy alkali halide sulphide and selenide glasses are promising hosts for active and passive optical devices. Lithium and sodium chalcohalide glasses exhibit high ionic conductivity and can be used for battery applications. The atomic structure of these glasses is extensively studied using spectroscopic techniques but the diffraction studies are rare. Recently, we have used a combination of neutron and high-energy x-ray diffraction to unveil the short and intermediate range order in NaCl-Ga2S3-GeS2 glasses. Surprisingly, the sodium tetrahedral environment in these glasses appears to be mixed with Na-Cl and Na-S neighbours. This structural information has never mentioned in available literature and allows a new insight into atomic structure of these practically important chalcohalide glasses. Consequently, we aim to investigate whether the mixed alkali environment exist for K and Rb

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.82414366
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/82414366
Provenance
Creator Dr Mariana Milochova; Dr Alex Hannon; Professor Eugene Bychkov
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-10-20T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-10-23T07:00:00Z