Unravelling the effects of polaron conduction on mixed conductivity glasses

M.A. FRECHERO; E. C. CARDILLO; DI PRÁTULA, PABLO; S. TERNY; LUIS A. HERNANDEZ GARCIA; MAGALI C. MOLINA

Polarons : recent progress and perspectives.

Nova Science Publishers

Año: 2018; p. 365 - 377

Oxide glasses are the oldest ever-known glasses. Probably, silicate glasses arethe most ancient material of industrial interest. However, glasses formed byother kind of oxides are of uppermost importance because of the specialproperties which they are able to develop for many applications in electronics,optics, biology, etc. Every oxide that originates a three-dimensional networkbuilt by corner connected oxygen polyhedral, with a particular coordinationnumber, conforms a glassy matrix of singular properties. Such properties canbe modified by the incorporation of other oxides. In general, each oxide has aspecific function, i.e. it could behave as a glass former, a former and amodifier or just a modifier. A huge number of glass compositions can beprepared by different methods which also have an influence on the glassproperties.