Fabrication, structural, physical, optical characteristics and γ-ray attenuation capacity of borosilicate glasses doped with GdO.

Barium fluoride borosilicate glass samples reinforced with varying amounts of GdO (BSBLG0-BSBLG4) have been manufactured using the conventional melt quenching procedure in order to provide additional research on the type of borosilicate glass. Structural, physical, and linear optical characteristics as well as γ-ray attenuation capacity of barium fluoride borosilicate doped with GdO was investigated. X-ray diffraction pattern proving the amorphous nature of the glass samples due to the absence of a distinctive crystalline characteristic peak.

Examinations the optical, mechanical, and shielding properties of AgO doped BO-BiO-SrF-NaO glasses for gamma ray shield applications.

A series of five glass samples have a chemical composition of (55-x) BO + 5 BiO + 20SrF + 20NaO + xAgO with varied doping ratios x = 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 mol% were fabricated using the melt quenching technique to study the effect of BO replacement by AgO on the physical, mechanical, optical and gamma-ray shielding capacity of the fabricated glasses. The Cary 5000 UV-Vis-NIR measured the optical absorption in the wavelength range between 200 and 3000 nm. Based on the measured optical absorption, energy (direct/indirect) bandgap and Urbach energy were calculated.

Influence of increasing SnO content on the mechanical, optical, and gamma-ray shielding characteristics of a lithium zinc borate glass system.

A series of six samples were prepared based on the chemical composition of 65BO + 20ZnO + (15-x)LiF + xSnOwhere x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.