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Optical Investigation of Sm3+ Doped in Phosphate Glass

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Samarium doped zinc-magnesium-phosphate glasses having composition (60 – x)P2O5–10MgO–30ZnO–xSm2O3 where x = 0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 1.0 mol % were prepared by melt quenching technique. Archimedes method was used to measure their densitieswhich are lying in the range 2.65–2.91 g/cm3. On the basis of the increasing trend in the density while increasing the content of Sm2O3 it can be concluded that the bridging oxygen is converted to non-bridging oxygen The UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy was carried on in the wavelength range 310–900 nm where the absorption spectra consist of six absorption peaks corresponding to the transitions from the ground state 6H5/2 to various excited energy levels. The optical band gaps are calculated to be 3.93–4.41 eV, 3.31–3.73 eV and 0.27–0.29 eV for direct band gap, indirect band gap and Urbach energy, respectively. The physical parameters like oxygen packing density, refractive index, molar refractivity, metallization, and electronic polarizability are also studied. The Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) technique is used to evaluate the thermal stability.

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  1. Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan

    Saddam Hussain, Raja J. Amjad, Muhammad Tanveer, Muhammad Nadeem, Hasan Mahmood & Abdul Sattar

  2. Laboratorio de Espectroscopia de Materiais Funcionais (LEMAF), Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, 13566-590, Brazil

    Raja J. Amjad

  3. Department of Physics, The University of Lahore, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan

    Azmat Iqbal

  4. Department of Chemistry, SBA School of Science and Engineering (SSE), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), DHA, Lahore Cantt, 54792, Pakistan

    Irshad Hussain & Syed Zajif Hussain

  5. Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, 54600, Pakistan

    Z. Amjad & S. A. Siddique

  6. Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Tabuleiro dos Martins 57072-900, Maceió, AL, 57072-900, Brazil

    M. Reza Dousti

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Hussain, S., Amjad, R.J., Tanveer, M. et al. Optical Investigation of Sm3+ Doped in Phosphate Glass. Glass Phys Chem 43, 538–547 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1087659617060219

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