The aim of this research is to examine the radiation shielding properties 5B2O3-40SiO2-(55-x)Al2O3-xBaO (BSABa-x) glass systems, which are containing barium and aluminum oxide added borosilicate glasses, with varying from 25 34 weight fractions. Shielding parameters, such as linear attenuation coefficients (LAC), mass (MAC), mean free path (MFP), effective atomic number (Zeff), electron density...

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...