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MEDIUM-RANGE ORDER OF RADIATION MODIFIED SILICA G L A S S E S S T U D I E D BY S P E C T R O S C O P I C AND O P T I C A L M E T H O D S A.V. K O N S T A N T I N O V a, L.V. M A K S I M O V
a, A.R. SILIN b, O.V. Y A N U S H c
a S.L Vavilov State Optical Institute, 199034 Leningrad, USSR b Institute of Solid State Physics, Latvian State University, 226083 Riga, USSR c Leningrad Technological Institute for the Pulp and Paper Industry, 198092 Leningrax~ USSR
Neutron irradiated silica glasses were studied. The increase of density and refractive index with the fluence value were found and Rayleigh and Mandelshtam-Bdllouin scattering, low-frequency Raman scattering and Raman scattering spectra were measured. It was concluded that neutron irradiation of silica glasses led to an alteration of a microinhomogeneous glass structure including correlation regions and 'frozen' density fluctuations.
1. Introduction The influence of particle irradiations with diffeting energies on the solid state structure leads to various alterations in electronic and nuclear subsystems. Consequently, one is compelled to apply experimental techniques characterized by selective sensitivity to structural changes on a given scale. We have investigated the total scattered light spectra of radiation modified silica glasses, Rayleigh and Mandelshtam-Brillouin scattering (RMBS), low-frequency Raman scattering (LFRS) and Raman scattering (RS).
2. Experimental techniques We investigated silica glass samples (type III) irradiated with neutron flux at fluences ( F ) from 1016 to 1020 n cm -2. Raman scattering (RS) and low-frequency Raman scattering (LFRS) spectra were obtained in W and VII polarizations using DFS-24 and Omars-89 spectrometers. The Rayleigh and Mandelshtam-Brillouin scattering (RMBS) spectra in W polarization were detected at a scattering angle 90 ° using a spectrometer including a pressure-scanned F a b r y - P e r r o t interferometer.
The refractive index n was measured using an IRF-23 refractometer with an error of +0.0002; the density p was defined by means of hydrostatic weighing in toluene with the error of + 0.002 g c m - 3.
3. Results and discussion The influence of a neutron flux at fluences F < 1018 n cm -2 does not result in detectable changes of density and refractive index. At F = 1018 to 10 2° n cm -2 the density and the refractive index increase with fluence corresponding to the known data. The quantitative differences are, perhaps, due to the difference in the energetic spectrum of a neutron flux and in temperatures of irradiation [1-4]. The data treatment using the L o r e n t z - L o r e n z formula n2-1 n2+ 2
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on the same glass samples are consistent with this assumption. Earlier it was shown that elastic moduli increased with fluence [6]. If interatomic potentials are considered as Mie-Griineisen potentials, U(r)=Ar-b-Br -d, then the calculation of b and d from ultrasound propagation data is an estimation of the bond ionicity change [7]. It is worth noting that bd increases both with the increase of fluence for irradiation of silica glass and with the introduction of alkali ions into SiO 2 [81. The influence of neutron flux on the SiO 2 short-range order appears in RS spectra. It is well-known that fluctuations of the intensities of bands at 495 and 606 cm-1, which are the narrowest and ascribed to 'defect structures', increase with total neutron flux [9]. In fig. 1 RS spectra of irradiated glasses are shown. From the figure it follows that with the growth of integrated flux the band intensities at 495 and 606 cm -1 increase in accordance with the known data [10], the increase beginning at F = 1018 n cm -2. The alterations in RS spectra support the notions about the silica
glass 'defectivity' increasing with integrated neutron flux and do not run counter to the conclusion about the growth of bond ionicity in SiO2 with integrated flux. The shift of RS bonds towards higher frequency (see fig. 2 and ref. [10]) may be evidence of the growth of internal stresses in silica glasses [11]. Passing over from generalized characteristics of glassy SiO 2, reflecting ensemble-averaged changes in nuclear and electron subsystems of nearest neighbours, to characteristics belonging to groupings including several next-nearest neighbours is possible by means of LFRS and RMBS spectroscopy. It is well known that in liquids and glasses there is a low-frequency (Av < 100 cm -1) Raman scattering peak, the existence of which is indicative of medium-range order regions in glass [12]. These are characterized by translation symmetry and interfaces or by gradual loss of translation symmetry which is described by a correlation function of the F ( R ) - e x p ( - R / R c) type, where Rc is the size of the correlation region. R~ can be
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nal (Mandelshtam-Brillouin scattering) and transverse hypersound waves [2]. The intensity of Mandelshtam-BriUouin scattering components, MBS, is defined by the parameters of a scattering medium and measurement temperatures T [21]: IMBS
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where k is the Boltzmann constant, and M = pV2 is the longitudinal elastic modulus. A high resolution RMBS spectrometer resolves the Rayleigh scattering from luminescence, excited by irradiation with wavelength 0.6328 I~m. The intensity of the scattering increases with the increasing integrated flux [13], the result being a decrease of the interference pattern contrast (fig. 4, curve 1). In fig. 4 the relationships of Rayleigh scattering (curve 2) and MBS (curve 3) intensities and Landau-Placzek ratio RL_p=IRaYl/2IMnS (curve 4) on integrated flux are also shown. One can see from the figure that the intensity of MBS is constant. This constantcy can be accounted for by the same character of n and M changes with
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Investigations of the total scattered light spectrum allow us to conclude that a neutron flux leads to changes of the whole hierarchy of silica glass inhomogeneities including structure correlation regions (medium-range order).
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