Physical and Structural Properties of Sm³⁺ Doped Phosphate Glasses

Abstract

Abstract: In this research, the glasses were made with composition (70-x) P₂O₅ - 10Bi₂O₃ - 10Na₂O - 10Gd₂O₃ - xSm₂O₃ (with x = 0; 0.05; 0,1; 0, 5; 1.0; 3.0 mol%). Molar volume, polar radius and inter nuclear distance decreases with increasing concentration Sm³⁺ in phosphate glass. However the refractive index, susceptibility of the oxide ion, polarizability (α) and reflection loss does not change in value. XRD diffraction shows that the patterns shape of the glasses spectrum are found no sharp peaks along the diffraction angle observation area (2θ). This shows that the concentration of Sm³⁺ ions does not affect the diffraction pattern of Sm: phosphate glass. The strongest FTIR spectrum is archieved PBNaG: Sm5 galss with wavenumber 871 cm⁻¹.

Keywords:

• Glasses
• XRD
• FTIR
• Samarium
• PBNaG:Sm³⁺

Additional information

Funding

The author would like to thanks Direktorat Jenderal Penguatan Riset dan Pengembangan, Ministry of Research and Higher Education for support the research (No. 076/SP2H/LT/DRPM/2019) and contract (No. 25/UN33.8/PL-DRPM/2019).