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n this thesis work, Zinc Niobo Tellurite (TNZ) and Cadmimun Niobo Tellurite (TNC)
glass systems with general formula (70-y-z)TeO
2
-(20-x)Nb
2
O
5
-(10+x) ZnO-yEu
-z
Dy
2
O
3
and (70-y-z)TeO
2
-(20-x)Nb
2
O
5
-(10+x) CdO-yEu
2
O
3
-z Dy
2
O
with x = 0,5,10;
y,z = 0,1 ( y=z1 ) mol% respectively are investigated.
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The glasses have been prepared
using the melt quenching method. Densities of the obtained glasses were measured and
the packing density was calculated. Raman spectra of the present glass samples were
measured in the range of 200–1,000 cm
-1
. For the TNZ glass system, increase in the
modifier zinc oxide (ZnO) content from 10 mol% to 20 mo% in un-doped glasses
showed a significant shift of band positions attributed to vibrations of trigonal
bipyramid [TO
4
] structural units from 637-667cm
-1
and bending vibrations of trigonal
pyramid [TeO
3
] units from 506-541cm
-1
. This increase in frequency is attributed to the
decrease in bond lengths of Te-O in TeO
4
and TeO
structural units. But in the case of
rare earth-doped TNZ glasses the band positions of the above structural units are
observed to shift slightly towards shorter wavenumbers. The peak shift, full width at
half maximum of de-convoluted Raman spectra of TeO
3
4
and TeO
structural units in
these glasses were analyzed to investigate the local environment. It is observed that
these tellurite glasses are good host for rare earth ions as they offer voids in the
network. The doped rare earth ions are not seen to change the local environment too
much but Dy ion has a slightly more tendency to polarize Tellurium-Oxygen (Te-O)
bonds than the Eu ions.
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The optical properties of these glasses have been investigated using absorption spectra.
The bonding parameters (δ and β), optical band gap, Urbach‘s energy, and Judd-Ofelt
(JO) intensity parameters were calculated from the absorption spectra. The JO intensity
parameters have been used to explore the nature of the bonding and asymmetry around
the Dy-ligand field environment. The JO parameters are in turn used to determine the
radiative parameters such as radiative transition probabilities, branching ratios and
radiative lifetimes have been estimated for the excited levels of Dy
3+
ions. The results
obtained have been compared with that of Dy
3+
-doped tellurite based glasses from
literature.
2
O
3
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Laser induced photoluminescence of Eu
3+
-doped tellurite-based glasses was
investigated. Europium oxide is found to be efficient in fluorescing in the visible as
well as in the IR wavelength with laser excitation |
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