Preparation and Characterisation of Rare Earth Doped Phosphate Glasses

Manpreet Kaur*, Mehak Mahajan**, Mohini Bhatia***, Sarabjit Kaur****, Lakhwant Singh*****
*-**-***-**** Department of Physics, DAV College, Amritsar, India.
***** Department of Physics, GNDU, Amritsar, India
Periodicity:April - June'2014
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jms.2.1.2759

Abstract

Phosphate glasses with composition 50P2O5-30CaO-(20-x) Li2O-xCeO2 with x varying from 0-2.0 mol % were prepared using the conventional melt quench technique. The amorphous nature of prepared glasses was confirmed from the XRD(X-Ray Diffraction) spectra. The density and Molar volume of the glasses was found using the Archimedes principle. The value of the density lies in the range of 3.58-3.71 g/cm3 . The density of the prepared glasses was found to increase with the concentration of CeO2 . This was explained as the molecular weight of CeO2 is more as compared to the  molecular weight of Li2O. The Raman spectra was obtained for the prepared glass samples and it was found that no new  peaks are formed with the doping of CeO2 , and only there is a change in the intensity of peaks and the peaks are red  shifted. The bandgap energy is found to decrease with CeO2 doping due to the formation of more NBOs.

Keywords

Band Gap Energy, Density, Molar Volume, Phosphate Glass, Raman Spectra

How to Cite this Article?

Kaur, M., Mahajan, M., Bhatia, M., Kaur, S., & Singh, L. (2014). Preparation and Characterisation of Rare Earth Doped Phosphate Glasses. i-manager's Journal on Material Science, 2(1), 15-19. https://doi.org/10.26634/jms.2.1.2759

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