PSEUDO-LATTICE VIBRATIONS AND GLASS TRANSITIONS IN METAL OXIDE CLASSES
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1973
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Ohio State University
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The far IR spectra of metal metaphosphate and tetraborate glasses yield broad absorption bands whose resonant frequencies $(\omega_{Res})$ and half-band-widths $(\Delta_{\omega 1/2})$ are strongly dependent on the mass and charge of the glass-modifying cation. Metal cations in the glass undergo localized vibrations on near-octahedral oxygen sites; however, in the crystalline form of these materials, the broad cation motion band splits into the crystal lattice spectrum. That these low frequency cation modes in glass arise from translational pseudo-lattice vibrations is shown by the linear dependences of relative integrated intensities with $\omega^{2}_{Res}$, and $\omega_{Res}$ with $\Delta_{\omega 1/2}$. A classical underdamped $(\omega_{Res}>\Delta_{\omega 1/2})$ forced harmonic oscillator model is suggested to explain the large half-bandwidths of the cation motion bands. At their respective glass transition temperatures, mean square amplitudes of vibration $<{R^{2}}_{MSA}>$ for metal metaphosphate glasses vary linearly with the square of the equilibrium cation-oxygen separations $<{R^{2}}_{eq}>$, which implies that at some critical ratio, $<{R^{2}}_{MSA}>/<{R^{2}}_{eq}>$ , the glass transition phenomenon ensues.
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Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, Brown University