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Physics and Chemistry

Physics and Chemistry of Glasses Volume 47 2006

Annual contents

1     A history of Anglo–German Glass Society collaboration

          Helmut A. Schaeffer

  7     Aqueous sol-gel preparation of Na2O–Al2O3–B2O3 glasses: structural characterisation by liquid and solid state NMR spectroscopy

          Long Zhang, Carla C. de Araujo, Hellmut Eckert

16     Formation and properties of soda–lime borate glasses

          Lisa M. Donohoe & James E. Shelby

22     Interrelationship between polarisability and polarising power of cations: application to glasses containing zinc oxide

          John A. Duffy

28     Surface effects on dielectric properties of Na2O–3SiO2 glasses at 35 GHz

          D. Bourret, A. Sivade, R. Sempere & M. Alyari

34     Spectroscopic and structural studies on calcium borate glasses containing V2O5

          C. Narayana Reddy, R. Damle & R. V. Anavekar

41     Phase equilibria during sodium/silver interdiffusion in glasses in the system Na2O–Al2O3–B2O3–SiO2

          Sandra Hornschuh, Christian Rüssel, Bernhard Messerschmidt, Torsten Possner & Ulf Possner

47     Interaction of iron containing silicate glasses with aqueous salt solutions

          April L. Pulvirenti, Sarah J. Eddy, Tara M. Calabrese, Mohamad A. Adel-Hadadi, Aaron Barkatt & Maury E. Morgenstein

58     Conductivity study of phosphate and oxynitride phosphate glasses in the system Li2O–Na2O–PbO–P2O5

          Francisco Muñoz, Ralf Keding, Christian Rüssel, Roger Marchand, Alicia Durán & Luis Pascual

64     Effect of float glass composition on liquidus temperature and devitrification behaviour

          Pavel Hrma, D. E. Smith, Josef Matyáš, J. D. Yeager, J. V. Jones & Edward N. Boulos

77     Ovshinsky Award: Why chalcogenides are ideal materials for Ovshinsky’s Ovonic threshold and memory devices

          H. Fritzsche

83     Rare-earth doped fluoride glass particles as three-dimensional near-field optical sensors

          L. Aigouy, M. Mortier, J. Giérak & E. Bourhis

88     Spectroscopic properties of chalcogenide fibres for biosensor applications

          Pierre Lucas, Michelle. A. Solis, Christophe Juncker, David Le Coq, Mark R. Riley, Jayne Collier, Dianne E. Boesewetter, Catherine Boussard-Plédel & Bruno Bureau

92     Populations and optical gain properties of Ho3+ in sulfide glasses for U-band (1625–1675 nm) fibre optic amplifiers

          J. Heo, T. H. Lee, W. J. Chung, B. J. Park & J. T. Ahn

96     Luminescent properties of Eu3+ doped silica containing silver nanoparticles

          Huijun Lu & John Ballato

101     EXAFS investigation on the local environment of rare earth ions in Ge–Ga–S–CsBr glasses

          Jong Heo, Jay Hyok Song & Yong Gyu Choi

105     Photoinduced refractive index change and absorption bleaching in poly(methylphenylsilane) under varied ambients

          B.G. Potter, Jnr., H. Chandra, K. Simmons-Potter, G.M. Jamison & W. J. Thomes

110     Recent advances in ion exchanged glass waveguides and devices

          Seppo Honkanen, Brian R. West, Sanna Yliniemi, Pratheepan Madasamy, Michael Morrell, Jason Auxier, Axel Schülzgen, Nasser Peyghambarian, James Carriere, Jesse Frantz, Ray Kostuk, Jose Castro & David Geraghty

121     Low loss infrared fluorotellurite optical fibre

          M. D. O’Donnell, D. Furniss, V. K. Tikhomirov & A. B. Seddon

127     Transparent glass-ceramics based on ZnO crystals

          L. R. Pinckney

131     Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy as experimental probe of free volume concepts in network glasses

          O. Shpotyuk, A. Kovalskiy, J. Filipecki, T. Kavetskyy & M. Popescu

136     Explosive disintegration of thermally toughened soda–lime glass and Prince Rupert’s drops

          M. Munawar Chaudhri

142     Preparation and properties of glasses and glass-ceramics based on GeSe2–Sb2Se3 and halides

          Laurent Calvez, Hong-Li Ma, Jacques Lucas & Xianghua Zhang

146     Normalisation and sample composition analysis of binary rare earth phosphate glasses by high energy x-ray scattering

          Mehdi Ali, Kanishka Marasinghe, Robert Hart, Chris Benmore, Nathaniel Wyckoff & Richard Brow

150     Infrared emission enhancement in Yb/Er/Ce-codoped glass-ceramics

          G. Dantelle, M. Mortier, D. Vivien & G. Patriarche

154     Nanostructural configurations in As2S3 glass

          M. Popescu, F. Sava, A. Lőrinczi & A. Anghel

158     The Agx(As0·33S0·67)100x amorphous chalcogenide bulk glasses and films prepared by pulsed laser deposition

          T. Wagner, M. Krbal, M. Frumar, P. Nemec, B. Frumarova, Mil. Vlcek & S. O. Kasap

162     Effect of annealing on the photoluminescence in sputtered films of Er-doped chalcogenide glasses

          C. Vigreux-Bercovici, A. Pradel, A. Fuchs & J. Fick

167     Yb3+ and Tm3+-doped fluoroaluminate classes for anti-Stokes cooling

          James V. Guiheen, Chris D. Haines, George H. Sigel Jnr., Richard I. Epstein, Jared Thiede & Wendy M. Patterson

177     Photoinduced changes in the local structure of a-GeSe2 by in situ EXAFS

          Ashtosh Ganjoo, Gang Chen & Himanshu Jain

182     Properties of binary GeO2–SiO2 glasses

          Elizabeth M. Birtch, James E. Shelby &  J. Marc Whalen

186     Reversible holographic 3D data storage in oxide glasses using visible lasers

          M. Nalin, E. J. Carvalho, L. Cescato, G. Poirier, S. J. L Ribeiro & Y. Messaddeq

189     Effect of thermal annealing on the photoluminescence of Er doped Ge–Se–Ga glasses

          K. Maeda, J. Ikuta, T. Arima, T. Sakai, T. Ikari, M. Munzar, D. Tonchev, & S.O. Kasap

193     Kinetics of optically – and thermally – induced diffusion and dissolution of silver in evaporated As33S33·5Se33·5 amorphous films; their properties and structure

          M. Krbal, T. Wágner, M. Frumar, Mil. Vlček & B. Frumarová

198     Luminescence in amorphous chalcogenide multilayers

          K. V. Adarsh, K. S. Sangunni, S. Kokenyesi, I. Ivan  & M. Shipljak

203     Na+–Li+ ion exchange on some heavy metal fluoride glasses

          Anna Buksak, Gerhard Heide & Günther H. Frischat

206     Mixed mobile ion effect and relaxation dynamics in fluoride glasses

          S. Ghosh & A. Ghosh

211     Optical recording in Se(Te)/As2S3 multilayers

          S. Kokenyesi, I. Ivan, M. Malyovanik, S. H. Messaddeq, Y. Messaddeq & S. J. L. Ribeiro

215     Viscoelastic model of photo-induced anisotropic density changes in glasses

          Michal Mlejnek

220     Photoluminescence properties of Er-doped Ge–Ga–Se glasses

          M. Munzar, K. Koughia, S. O. Kasap, C. Haugen, R. DeCorby & J. N. McMullin

225     Thermal and optical analysis of Ge–Ga–Se chalcogenide glasses

          T. Sakai, K. Maeda, M. Munzar, D. Tonchev, T. Ikari & S. O. Kasap

229     XRD study of laser induced crystallisation of (Ag)–Sb–S amorphous thin films prepared by thermal evaporation combined with optically induced diffusion and dissolution of Ag

          J. Gutwirth, T. Wagner, M. Frumar, P. Bezdicka & Mil. Vlcek

233     Copper as a structural probe for acetate glass

          Mary E. Stokes & Henry D. Schreiber

236     Effect of SnO additions on the decolourisation of amber glass

          Melissann M. Ashton-Patton, Douglas B. Rapp & James E. Shelby

240     High pressure Raman spectroscopy of GeSe2 glass

          Pallavi V. Teredesai

244     Nanoscale light-induced plasticity in chalcogenide glasses studied by depth-sensing indentation

          M. L. Trunov & S. N. Dub

250     Spin coated chalcogenide films of Ge–Se–Te: physico-chemical properties

          Tomas Kohoutek, Tomas Wagner, Miloslav Frumar & Milan Vlcek

254     Phase separation in mixed halide Ba–La–Li/Na zirconate glasses: a molecular dynamics study

          A. Edgar, S. C. Hendy & D. Bayliss

259     Bulk crystallisation in mixed alkali disilicate glasses doped with a nucleating agent

          Naofumi Mishima, Takashi Wakasugi & Rikuo Ota

266     Relaxation of structural units in MD simulated silicate glasses

          Jan Machacek, Ondrej Gedeon & Marek Liska

271     Method for estimating continuous cooling transformation curves of glasses

          Dongmei Zhu, Wancheng Zhou, Chandra S. Ray & Delbert E. Day

278     EPR studies of Mn(II) and Cu(II) ions in SiO2 xerogels calcined under nitrogen atmosphere

          M. Mazur, J. Moncol, M. Kleinova, P. Stachova & M. Valko

283     Formation and properties of sodium tantalum silicate glasses

          Samuel D. Conzone & James E. Shelby

288     Properties of arsenic and antimony borate glasses

          Shyam Chatlani & James E. Shelby

294     Aqueous durability of K2O–CaO–P2O5–SO3 glasses: kinetics and mechanism

          P. Sen, G. K. DasMohapatra, K. Ghosh & N. Sood Biswas

301     Electrical properties of V2O5–CaO–B2O3 glasses exhibiting majority charge carrier reversal

          B. Indrajit Sharma & A. Srinivasan

310     Conference diary

313     Structure and properties of iron borophosphate glasses

          P. A. Bingham, R. J. Hand, S. D. Forder, A. Lavaysierre, F. Deloffre, S. H. Kilcoyne & I. Yasin

318     Influence of water content on structure and kinetics of structural relaxation of sodium borate glasses

          V. Golubkov, Alexander A. Zhilin, Alexander V. Shashkin & Michael P. Shepilov

323     MD study of sodium borate glasses containing Al2O3

          Norikazu Ohtori, Masanao Togashi, Keiichi Takase, Katsumi Handa, Junko Ide, Efstratios I. Kamitsos, K. Itoh, T. Fukunaga & Norimasa Umesaki

328     A solution approach to high alkali content borate glasses

          Joy Banerjee, Greg Ongie, Jacob Harder, Trenton Edwards, Chris Larson, Scott Sutton, Anthony Moeller, Abhirup Basu, Mario Affatigato, Steve Feller & Masao Kodama

332     Preparation and x-ray characterisation of (Li2O.WO3)1–x(B2O3)x glasses

          Z. K. Heiba, A. Abou Shama & Karimat El-Sayed

335     Elastic and thermal properties of lithium borate glass system

          Yuji Ike, Yu Matsuda, Chihiro Matsui, Masao Kodama & Seiji Kojima

339     Ordering effects in spatial arrangement of particles in phase  separated sodium borosilicate glass

          M.P. Shepilov, A.E. Kalmykov & G.A. Sycheva

344     Crystallisation processes in rapid quenched AgCl–AgI–Ag2O–B2O3 glasses

          J. L. Nowińskia, J. E. Garbarczyka, M. Wasiucioneka & S. Gierlotkab

348     Local structure of europium and iron sites in zinc borate glasses

          G. Concas, F. Congiu & G. Spano, M. Bettinelli & A. Speghini

352     The polymorphs of crystalline caesium enneaborate

          Richard Haworth, Adrian C. Wright, Roger N. Sinclair, Kevin S. Knight, Natalia M. Vedishcheva, Irina G. Polyakova & Boris A. Shakhmatkin

357     Local structural disorder and mobility of Ag+ ions in silver borate glasses containing -AgI stabilised at room temperature

          G. Dalba, P. Fornasini, F. Rocca, F. Monti, T. Minami & M. Tatsumisago

364     Edge sharing BO4 tetrahedra as a new structural feature in borate structures

          Holger Emme & Hubert Huppertz

367     Broadband dielectric response of binary borate glasses

          A. Mandanici, M. Cutroni, A. Raimondo, M. Federico,  F. Rocca & C. Armellini

371     Effect of cobalt ions on the EPR and d.c. conductivity in vanadyl doped CoO–M2O–B2O3 (M=Li, K) glasses

          S. Khasa, V. P. Seth, P. S. Gahlot, A. Agarwal & S. K. Gupta

377     Sodium selenoborato-closo-dodecaborates: structures and properties

          Adrienne Hammerschmidt, Matthias Döch, Arno Lindemann, Steffen Pütz & Bernt Krebs

381     Borophosphosilicate glasses: properties and structure

          B. G. Aitken & R. E. Youngman

388     Dynamical response of borate glasses down to low temperatures

          M. Cutroni, A. Mandanici, A. Raimondo & A. Sanson

393     Alkali dependence of tetrahedral boron in alkali borate glasses

          Scott Kroeker, Pedro Aguiar, Anthony Cerquiera, Joy Okoro, Warren Clarida, Jesse Doerr, Martin Olesiuk, Greg Ongie, Mario Affatigato & Steven A. Feller

397     Phase separation and crystallisation in borate glasses

          Christian Rüssel, Diana Tauch, Ralitsa Garkova, Sebastian Woltz & Günter Völksch

405     Neutron spectroscopic studies of caesium borate crystals and glasses

          Roger N. Sinclair, Richard Haworth, Adrian C. Wright, Ben G. Parkinson, Diane Holland, Jon W. Taylor, Natalia M. Vedishcheva, Irina G. Polyakova, Boris A. Shakhmatkin, Steven A. Feller, B. Rijal & T. Edwards

412     Connection between spectral features of B K edge XANES of minerals and the local structure

          O. Šipr, A. Šimůnek, J. Vackář, G. Dalba & F. Rocca

419     Structure and dynamics of ionic borate glasses

          C. P. E. Varsamis, A. Vegiri & E. I. Kamitsos

430     In situ evolution of the structure of alkali borate glasses and melts by infrared reflectance and Raman spectroscopies

          Laurent Cormier, Domingos De Sousa Meneses, Daniel R. Neuville & Patrick Echegut

435     Glass formation and microheterogeneous structure in the B2O3–MoO3–MenOm (Me=W, Mn, Cu) systems

          Y. Dimitriev, E. Kashchieva, D. Ilieva & R. Iordanova

441     Ab initio calculations on borate systems

          G. Ferlat, L. Cormier, F. Mauri, E. Balan, G. Calas, T. Charpentier & E. Anglada

445     XAS study of barium borate glasses and crystals

          Katsumi Handa, Junko Ide, Yoko Nishiyama, Kazuhiko Ozutsumi, Giuseppe Dalba, Norikazu Ohtori & Norimasa Umesaki

449     A parameterisation for the composition dependence of N4 in borate glasses

          Alex C. Hannon & Diane Holland

455     The structure of borates between glassy and liquid state – results of diffraction methods

          Gerhard Herms & Jan Sakowski

460     Binary alkaline earth borates: phase diagram correction and low thermal expansion of crystallised stoichiometric glass compositions

          Rafael M. Hovhannisyan

465     Borate anomaly and anharmonicity in sodium borate glasses

          M. Kodama, A. Ono, S. Kojima, S. A. Feller & M. Affatigato

471     Medium range order in lead borophosphate glasses

          L. Koudelka, P. Mošner, J. Jirák, M. Zeyer-Düsterer & C. Jäger

476     Glass property calculations and prediction of new compounds on the basis of raman spectroscopy of borate glasses

          Tatiana S. Markova, Oleg V. Yanush, Irina G. Polyakova & Boris Z. Pevzner

484     A NMR, conductivity and molecular dynamics study of AgI–Ag2O–B2O3 glasses

          Piercarlo Mustarelli, Corrado Tomasi, María del Pilar Infante García & Aldo Magistris

489     Magnetic resonance studies on amorphous and crystalline lanthanum aluminoborates

          S. Simon

493     Modelling of B2O3 glass structure by coupled MD/MC simulation

          A. Takada

497     Thermodynamic modelling of the real-space correlation function for four sodium borosilicate glasses

          Adrian C. Wright, Natalia M. Vedishcheva & Boris A. Shakhmatkin

507     EELS study of boron coordination in alkali borosilicate glasses under extensive electron irradiation

          G. Yang, G. Möbus & R. J. Hand

513     Correlation of lead borate glass structure with photoelastic response

          J. L. Shaw, U. Werner-Zwanziger & J. W. Zwanziger

518     XAFS study on the local order of Pb in PbO borate glasses

          G. Dalba, P. Fornasini, R. Grisenti, F. Rocca, N. Afify & M. Affatigato

521     XAS study of barium aluminoborate glasses

          Junko Ide, Kazuhiko Ozutsumi, Katsumi Handa, Giuseppe Dalba, Norikazu Ohtori & Norimasa Umesaki

524     Influence of the cation nature on some dilatometric glass properties in the systems RO–Al2O3–B2O3 (R=Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba)

          V. P. Klyuev, B. Z. Pevzner & I. G. Polyakova

530     The B2O3/SrO ratio influence on the structural and magnetical properties of the CuO–B2O3–SrO glasses

          Raluca Ciceo Lucacel & I. Ardelean

534     Peculiar properties of barium diborate polycrystals

          B. Z. Pevzner, V. P. Klyuev, I. G. Polyakova & V. F. Borodzyulya

538     Structural interpretation of water content effect on the properties of one-alkali borate glasses

          Olga Yu. Golubeva, Valerii F. Pavinich & Sergey V. Stolyar

543     Differential volume changes in trigonal and tetrahedral borate units

          Gregory J. Ongie, Steven A. Feller, Mario Affatigato & Masao Kodama

548     Luminescence and energy transfer properties of Sm3+: borate glasses

          S. Surendra Babu, C. K. Jayasankar, P. Babu, T. Tröster, W. Sievers & G. Wortmann

553     Holmium doped borate glasses with high lead oxide content by spectroscopic studies

          J. Pisarska, G. Dominiak-Dzik, W. Ryba-Romanowski, T. Goryczka & W. A. Pisarski

558     An XAFS study of the local structure of europium ion in crystallised borosilicate glass

          Toshihiro Okajima, Norimasa Umesaki, Akio Konishi, Tetsuo Jin, Isao Tanaka & Tetsuo Yazawa

563     Optical emission spectroscopy of iron containing soda–lime–silica glasses

          Anne Baum, Matthias Müller & Christian Rüssel

569     Long term stability of x-ray induced metastable defects in soda–lime–silica glass

          Jiawei Sheng, Qin Lou, Jian Zhang, Jingwu Zheng, Liang Qiao & Liqiang Jiang

572     Non-isothermal crystallisation kinetics of devitrifying RO–BaO–SiO2
(R=Mg, Zn) glasses

          M. J. Pascual, C. Lara & A. Durán

582     Refractivity and coordination number changes of the Ti4+ ion in glass

          J. A. Duffy

588     -ray interaction with bioglasses containing transition metal ions

          Fatma H. ElBatal,  Moenis A. Azooz & Samir Y. Marzouk

598     Formation and properties of sodium tungsten borate glasses

          Laura Brickwedel & James E. Shelby

602     Effect of crystallisation of a glass tested in vitro for its bioactivity

          F. Branda, G. Luciani, B. Silvestri, A. Costantini, A. Ravaglioli
& A. Piancastelli

610     Density and dc conductivity of Fe2O3–PbO–P2O5 glasses

          H. Doweidar, K. El-Egili, Y. M. Moustafa & I. Abbas

619     Use of hard sphere ionic model for glass: A method of analysing void space for comparing glass systems

          J. A. Duffy

627     On effective use of existing experimental data in glass science

          O. V. Mazurin & Yu. Gankin

          Jiawei Sheng, Qin Lou, Jian Zhang, Jingwu Zheng, Liang Qiao & Liqiang Jiang

631     Glass formation in the MoO3–CuO system

          R. S. Iordanova, M. K. Milanova, K. L. Kostov

638     Optical basicity and chemical bonding of vanadate glasses

          Vesselin Dimitrov & Takayuki Komatsu

647     Mechanisms for converting bioactive silicate, borate, and borosilicate glasses to hydroxyapatite in dilute phosphate solution

          Wenhai Huang, Mohamed N. Rahaman, Delbert E. Day & Yadong Li

659     Crystallisation, dielectric and optical characteristics of TeO2–K2O–Li2O–Nb2O5 glasses

          M. Niyaz Ahamad & K. B. R. Varma

665     Mössbauer and epr studies of the effect of iron in molybdenum phosphate glasses

          N. A. Eissa, S. M. El-Mossalamy, W. M. El-Meligy & H. A. Sallam

669     The effect of ZnO, La2O3, PbO and Bi2O3 on the properties of binary borate glasses and melts

          Doris Ehrt

675     Pressure–temperature dependence of nanowire formation in the arsenic–sulfur system

          B. J. Riley, B. R. Johnson, S. K. Sundaram, M. H. Engelhard, R. E. Williford & J. D. Olmstead

681     Surface degradation of As2S3 thin films

          P. J. Allen, B. R. Johnson, R. T. Baran, N. C. Anheier, S. K. Sundaram, M. H. Engelhard & B. T. Broocks

688     Conference diary

 

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