NUKLEONIKA 2013, 58(3):379-385

 


EPR SPECTROSCOPY OF Cu2+ AND Mn2+ IN BORATE GLASSES



Adam Drzewiecki1, Bohdan Padlyak1,2, Volodymyr Adamiv2, Yaroslav Burak2,
Ihor Teslyuk2

1 Institute of Physics, University of Zielona Góra,
4a Szafrana Str., 65-516 Zielona Góra, Poland

2 Institute of Physical Optics, 23 Dragomanov Str., 79-005 Lviv, Ukraine


Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra of the CaB4O7 and LiCaBO3 glasses containing 0.5 and 1.0 mol.% CuO and MnO2 impurity compounds were investigated at room temperature. The glasses with CaB4O7:Cu, LiCaBO3:Cu, CaB4O7:Mn and LiCaBO3:Mn compositions were produced from the corresponding polycrystalline compounds using standard glass synthesis and technological conditions developed by the authors. The EPR spectral parameters of the Cu2+ and Mn2+ centres in both glasses containing 0.5 and 1.0 mol.% CuO and MnO2 doping oxides were determined. Analysis of EPR spectral parameters shows that Cu impurity is incorporated into the CaB4O7 and LiCaBO3 glass network as isolated Cu2+ (3d9, 2D5/2) paramagnetic ions. The Cu2+ ions occupy Ca(Li) sites of the borate glass network coordinated by six O2- anions with geometry of elongated octahedron (D4h symmetry) due to the Jahn-Teller effect. The EPR spectra of the Mn-doped CaB4O7 and LiCaBO3 glasses are virtually identical and typical of all oxide glasses activated with Mn2+ (3d5, 6S5/2) ions. Observed EPR spectra in the Mn-doped glasses were attributed to isolated Mn2+ (1) centres (geff =~ 4.3) in octahedral Ca(Li) sites with a strong (fully) rhombic distortion, isolated Mn2+ (2) centres (geff =~ 2.0) in octahedral Ca(Li) sites with nearly cubic local symmetry as well as pairs and small clusters of the Mn2+ ions, coupled by magnetic dipolar and exchange interactions. On the basis of the obtained results and analysis of referenced data, the local structure of the Cu2+ and Mn2+ centres in the borate glasses have been proposed.


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