Preparation And Characterization Of Transition Metal Oxide Doped Borate Glasses

Research Article
Devinder Singh., Randev Singh and Balkaran Singh
DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2017.0805.0301
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Band Gap Energy, Borate Glasses, TMOs, UV/Visible Spectroscopy.
Abstract: 

The transition metal ions such as Copper, Silver and Titanium when dissolved in B2O3 glass matrix, even in very small quantities, influence the properties very strongly. In the present study Borate Glasses doped with different transition metals have been prepared in laboratory by using Melt Quench Technique. The absorption spectra of the prepared samples have been obtained by using UV/Visible spectroscopy. The Band-Gap Energy (Eg ) values are obtained by using Tau’s Plots. The significant increase in Eg values from 2.60 to 3.18 eV is observed. A transmission window is observed in the spectra of Cu-doped glass sample which indicates the possibility of large number of applications in the field of nonlinear optics. An increase in the density values from 4.851 to 5.038 gm/cm3 is observed with the addition of TMOs having higher atomic number.