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Identification of relaxing structural defects in densified B2O3 glasses

Giovanni Carini, Jr., Giuseppe Carini, Giovanna D'Angelo, Daniele Fioretto, and Gaspare Tripodo
Phys. Rev. B 90, 140204(R) – Published 28 October 2014

Abstract

Sound propagation has been investigated at megahertz and gigahertz frequencies in B2O3 solids which have been pressure quenched to go through different glassy phases having growing density until the crystalline state. Over the temperature range between 10 and 300 K, the attenuation and velocity of sound in glasses are regulated by classical activation over potential barriers of structural defects and vibrational anharmonicity. The defect states are absent in the crystalline phase whose acoustic behavior is determined only by the anharmonic coupling between sound waves and thermal vibrations. Our study leads to identification of the specific superstructural units subjected to thermally activated motions in vitreous B2O3. These molecular groups are the boroxol rings which are formed due to the poor atomic packing of glassy networks and are missing in the crystal.

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  • Received 7 February 2014
  • Revised 30 September 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.140204

©2014 American Physical Society

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Giovanni Carini, Jr.1, Giuseppe Carini2, Giovanna D'Angelo2, Daniele Fioretto3, and Gaspare Tripodo2

  • 1IPCF del C.N.R., U.O.S. di Messina, I-98158 Messina, Italy
  • 2Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Università di Messina, I-98166 Messina, Italy
  • 3Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy

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Vol. 90, Iss. 14 — 1 October 2014

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