Crystallization behavior of 70GeS
2
–20In
2
S
3
–10CsI chalcohalide
glass with silver addition
Fei Huang
•
Yinsheng Xu
•
Liyan Chen
•
Qiuhua Nie
•
Shaoqian Zhang
•
Shixun Dai
Received: 25 December 2013 / Accepted: 5 June 2014 / Published online: 20 July 2014
Ó Akade
´
miai Kiado
´
, Budapest, Hungary 2014
Abstract The crystallization behavior of the 70GeS
2
–
20In
2
S
3
–10CsI glass introduced with 2 mol% Ag
2
S system
has been studied under non-isothermal condition. The
beginning of transmission is shifted toward longer wave-
length as a function of annealing temperature. Thermal
properties were measured by the differential scanning
calorimeter. From the heating rate dependence of crystal-
lization temperature, the activation energy (E
c
) for crys-
tallization and the crystallization rate constant (K) were
calculated. The K value of 2.44 9 10
9
for the In
2
S
3
phase
is about 28 times larger than the second CP, this is why the
controllable crystallization to transparent chalcogenide
glass-ceramics with sole In
2
S
3
crystallites can be achieved.
By heat treatment with various temperatures, the hardness
of the glass enhanced from 204 to 230.8 kg mm
-2
, while
retained the transmittance of the 8–11 lm.
Keywords Chalcogenide glass-ceramics Activation
energy Thermal properties Mechanical properties
Introduction
Chalcogenide glasses have been studied intensively for
several decades because of their practical and potential
applications in the fields of infrared (IR) imaging,
chemical and biological sensing, optical communications,
infrared laser power delivery, and high-efficient host for
rare earth doping [1–4]. Tao et al. [5, 6] studied that the
Dy
3?
-doped GaGaCdS glasses would be good potential
candidates of chalcogenide glass for lasers, amplifiers,
and high brightness sources in the near- and mid-IR
region, and the mechanical limitations of ChG fibers and
enables optimizing the optical properties for non-linear
applications. However, compared to oxide glasses, chal-
cogenide glasses have relatively weak mechanical prop-
erties with high thermal expansion coefficient and low
resistance to thermal shock, then the advantages of chal-
cogenide glasses have not been fully exploited. Fortu-
nately, it is well known that crystallization of glasses is a
good way to balance thermal expansion, restrain shock
sensitivity, and inhibit crack propagation [7, 8]. On the
other side, chalcogenides and halides have been used, and
reproducible glass-ceramics have been obtained with
excellent infrared transmission [9].
Currently, glass-ceramics are attracting interest due to
the improved mechanical properties, and kept an excellent
IR transmittance. For example, Zhu et al. [10] studied that
controlled crystallization of GeS
2
–Sb
2
S
3
–CsCl glass for
fabricating infrared transmitting glass-ceramics. Lin et al.
[11] studied that crystallization behavior of 80GeS
2-
20Ga
2
S
3
chalcogenide glass. Shen et al. [12] studied that
crystallization behavior of GeSe
2
–Ga
2
Se
3
–CsI glasses
studied by differential thermal analysis. Furthermore, the
crystallization behavior of some chalcogenide glass sys-
tems has been investigated; e.g., GeS
2
–Sb
2
S
3
–CsCl [13],
F. Huang Y. Xu (&) L. Chen Q. Nie S. Dai
Laboratory of Infrared Materials and Devices, Advanced
Technology Research Institute, Ningbo University,
Ningbo 315211, China
e-mail: xuyinsheng@nbu.edu.cn
F. Huang
e-mail: hfei125@hotmail.com
F. Huang L. Chen Q. Nie
College of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo
University, Ningbo 315211, China
S. Zhang
Key Laboratory of Chemical Laser, Chinese Academy of
Sciences/Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian 116023,
China
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J Therm Anal Calorim (2014) 117:1271–1276
DOI 10.1007/s10973-014-3936-7