Trends in Effective Diffusion Coefficients for Ion-Exchange Strengthening of Soda-Lime-Silicate Glasses

Study of the silver diffusion in soda lime and borosilicate glasses: effects on mechanical properties of glasses

It is well known that silver nanoparticles have been used for centuries as a yellow tint for glasses, which made the silver a revolutionary colorant used to paint the windows of the religious places. An ion exchange non-conventional process comely called medieval pigment without using molten salts has long been used as a method for coloring the glass. In the same subject, this work aims to stud...

Producing the Gradient Changes in Glass Refraction by the Ion Exchange Method — Selected Aspects

This chapter presents the chosen aspects of the ion exchange technological method. Results of research refer to the refractive index profiles of planar waveguides produced by the ion exchange method in various glasses. All refractive index profiles were determined by measuring the effective refractive indices of the waveguide modes. In the first part of this chapter the processes of electrodiff...

Influence of KNO3 Bath Composition on Ion Exchange Process of Commercial Soda Lime Silicate Float Glass

XAFS Studies of Silver Environments in Ion-Exchanged Glasses

The X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) technique was used to analyze the structural geometry of Ag atoms introduced into soda-lime silicate glass and soda aluminosilicate glass by ion-exchange methods. The results show that Ag ions in aluminosilicate glass are coordinated by about two oxygens and the nearest-neighbor Ag-O distance increases when the Ag-for-Na ion-exchange ratio is larger th...

Formation and Properties of Laser-Induced Periodic Surface Structures on Different Glasses

The formation and properties of laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS) was investigated on different technically relevant glasses including fused silica, borosilicate glass, and soda-lime-silicate glass under irradiation of fs-laser pulses characterized by a pulse duration τ = 300 fs and a laser wavelength λ = 1025 nm. For this purpose, LIPSS were fabricated in an air environment at ...