УДК: 535.36

Transparent glass–ceramics based on ZnO and ZnO:Co2+ nanocrystals

Alekseeva, I.P., Dymshits, O.S., Zhilin, A.A., Zapalova, S.S., Shemchuk, D.V.

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Алексеева И.П., Дымшиц О.С., Жилин А.А., Запалова С.С., Шемчук Д.В. Прозрачные стеклокристаллические материалы на основе нанокристаллов ZnO и ZnO:Co2+ // Оптический журнал. 2014. Т. 81. № 12. С. 27–34.

Alekseeva I.P., Dymshits O.S., Zhilin A.A., Zapalova S.S., Shemchuk D.V. Transparent glass–ceramics based on ZnO and ZnO:Co2+ nanocrystals [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2014. V. 81. № 12. P. 27–34.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

I. P. Alekseeva, O. S. Dymshits, A. A. Zhilin, S. S. Zapalova, and D. V. Shemchuk, "Transparent glass–ceramics based on ZnO and ZnO:Co²⁺ nanocrystals," Journal of Optical Technology. 81(12), 723-728 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.81.000723

Abstract:

Glasses of the potassium zinc aluminum silicate system, undoped and doped with cobalt oxide, have been synthesized. Differential-thermal analysis and x-ray phase-diffraction analysis were used to study the crystallization physics and the nature of the phases precipitated when the starting glasses were heat treated in the temperature interval 680°C–950°C, as well as the effect of adding cobalt oxide on the phase-transformation processes. Transparent glass–ceramic materials based on only nanocrystals of zinc oxide were obtained, along with zinc oxide and β-willemite. It is found that, when the cobalt-bearing glasses are heat-treated, cobalt ions from the starting glass initially enter into the resulting zinc oxide nanocrystals and, as the temperature is increased, into the β-willemite nanocrystals.

Keywords:

glass–ceramic material, zinc oxide, nanocrystals, x-ray phase-diffraction analysis, absorption

Acknowledgements:

This work was carried out with the partial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Grant 13-03-01289 A.

OCIS codes: 010.1030, 160.2900, 160.6000, 300.6560

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