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Influence of molybdenum ions on optical absorption, ESR and IR OF A2O (A=LI, NA, K)-NAF-B2O3 glass system

R. VIJAY1,* , B. TILAK2, P. RAMESH BABU1, D. KRISHNA RAO1

Affiliation

  1. Department of Physics, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, Andhra Pradesh, India
  2. Department of Materials Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abstract

A 20A2O(A=Li, Na, K)- 20NaF- (60-x)B2O3: xMoO3 glass system with x=0 and 0.5 mol % was prepared by conventional melt quenching technique and investigated by optical absorption, ESR, and IR spectroscopies. The optical absorption spectra of 0.5 mol% exhibited a predominant broad band in the region 600-800 nm, which can be attributed the presence of MoO3 ion and also the excitation of Mo5+ (4d1) ion in the glasses. It is observed that LNBMO absorption band is more dominant when compared to the KNBMo, NNBMo. The optical band gap (Eo) has been evaluated using Urbach plots. IR studies reveal that the stretching relaxation of B-O bond, trigonal BO3, and BO4, the bending vibrations of B-O-B linkages in the borate network at different wave numbers. ESR results show that there is a co-existence of Mo5+ ions with Mo6+ ion the glass matrix. The hyperfine structure is nearly smeared out and a relatively broad line with an isotropic g values characterizes the spectra..

Keywords

Molybdenum ions, Optical absorption, ESR and IR.

Citation

R. VIJAY, B. TILAK, P. RAMESH BABU, D. KRISHNA RAO, Influence of molybdenum ions on optical absorption, ESR and IR OF A2O (A=LI, NA, K)-NAF-B2O3 glass system, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 6, 7-8, July-August 2012, pp.703-708 (2012).

Submitted at: May 2, 2012

Accepted at: July 19, 2012