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Glass-Ceramic Materials with Luminescent Properties in the System ZnO-B2O3-Nb2O5-Eu2O3
Lyubomir Aleksandrov1, Aneliya Yordanova1, Margarita Milanova1
1Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, G. Bonchev, Str., bld. 11, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.
Abstract:
In this paper, the crystallization behavior of 50ZnO:47B2O3:3Nb2O3:0.5Eu2O3 (G-0 h) glass has been investigated in detail by DSC, XRD and TEM analysis. The luminescent properties of the resulting glass-ceramics were also investigated. By XRD and TEM analysis, crystallization of several crystalline phases has been proved (α-Zn3B2O6, β-Zn3B2O6 and ZnNb2O6). By calculating crystal parameters, it was found that europium ions are successfully incorporated in the β-Zn3B2O6. Photo-luminescent spectra showed increased emission in the resulting glass-ceramic samples compared to the parent glass sample due to higher asymmetry of Eu3+ ions in the obtained crystalline phases. It was established that the optimum emission intensity is registered for glass-ceramic samples obtained after 25 h heat treatment of the parent glass.
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