Effect of TiO2 on electron paramagnetic resonance, optical transmission and dc conductivity of vanadyl doped sodium borate glasses

• Published in: Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy Vol. 60; no. 13; pp. 3161 - 3167
• Main Authors: Agarwal, A, Seth, V P, Gahlot, P, Goyal, D R, Arora, M, Gupta, S K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.11.2004
• Subjects: Borates - chemistry; Electric Conductivity; Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy; Glass - chemistry; Optics and Photonics; Temperature; Titanium - chemistry; Vanadium - chemistry
• ISSN: 1386-1425
• DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2004.02.031

Glass systems with composition xTiO2.(30 - x)Na2O.70B2O3 (series I) and xTiO2.(70 - x)B2O3.30Na2O (series II) containing 2 mol% V2O5 have been prepared (0 < or = x < or = 7, mol%) by normal melt-quenching. The electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra of VO2+ ions have been recorded in the X-band (approximately 9.13 GHz) at room temperature. Spin Hamiltonian parameters, gparallel, gperpendicular, Aparallel, Aperpendicular, the dipolar hyperfine coupling parameter (P) and the Fermi contact interaction parameter (K) have been calculated. The increase in Deltagparallel/Deltagperpendicular with increase in TiO2 content in series I shows that the octahedral symmetry of V4+O6 complex is reduced, whereas in series II the octahedral symmetry is improved with increase in x. The decrease in P, in both the series, indicates that the 3dxy orbit expands with increase in mol% of TiO2. The molecular orbital coefficients, alpha2 and gamma2 have been calculated by recording the optical transmission spectra in the range 500-850 nm. alpha2 and gamma2 increase with increase in x in both the series, which indicates that, the covalency of the vanadium oxygen bonds decreases. The dc conductivity sigma, decreases and activation energy, W increases with increase in TiO2:Na2O ratio whereas with increase in TiO2:B2O3 ratio the variation in sigma and W is within experimental error.