Effect of Rare-Earth Doping on Free-Volume Nanostructure of Ga-Codoped Glassy (As/Sb)2Se3.
Subsequent stages of atomic-deficient nanostructurization finalizing rare-earth functionality under Pr3+-doping in Ga2(As0.28Sb0.12Se0.60)98glass are studied employing method of positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy. Genesis of free-volume positron trapping sites, composed of atomic-accessible geometrical holes (void cores) arrested by surrounding atomic-inaccessible Se-based bond-free solid angles (void shells), are disclosed for parent As2Se3, Ga-codoped Ga2(As0.40Se0.60)98, as well as Ga-codoped and Sb-modified Ga2(As0.28Sb0.12Se0.60)98glasses. The finalizing nanostructurization due to Pr3+-doping (500 wppm) in glassy Ga2(As0.28Sb0.12Se0.60)98is explained in terms of competitive contribution of changed occupancy sites available for both rare-earth ions and positrons.
Department of Sensor and Semiconductor Electronics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 107, Tarnavskogo str., Lviv, 79017, Ukraine. yashpotyuk@gmail.com.|Center for Innovation and Transfer of Natural Sciences and Engineering Knowledge, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Rzeszow, 1, Pigonia str., 35-959, Rzeszow, Poland. yashpotyuk@gmail.com.|Laboratoire Verres et Céramiques, UMR-CNRS 6226, Université de Rennes 1, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France. yashpotyuk@gmail.com.
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Atomic-deficient nanostructurization; Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy; Rare-earth doping; Sb-modification