The Thermally Reversing Window in Ternary GexPxS1-2x glasses.pdfVIP

The Thermally Reversing Window in Ternary Ge P S glasses x x 1-2x U. Vempati and P.Boolchand Department of Electrical, Computer Engineering and Computer Science University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0030 Abstract Ge P S glasses in the compositional range 0.05 ≤ x ≤0.19 have been x x 1-2x synthesized and examined in temperature modulated differential scanning calorimetry (MDSC) and Raman scattering experiments. Trends in the non-reversing enthalpy ∆Hnr(x) near Tg show the term to almost vanish in the 0.090(5) x 0.135(5) range, and to increase by an order of magnitude at x 0.09, and at x 0.135. In analogy to previous results on chalcogenide glasses, we identify compositions at x 0.09 to be elastically floppy, those in the 0.090 x 0.135 range to be in the intermediate phase, and those at x 0.135 to be stressed rigid. MDSC results also show the ∆Hnr term ages in the stressed- rigid and floppy phases but not in the intermediate phase. The intermediate phase is viewed to be a self-organized phase of a disordered network. It consists of at least four isostatically rigid local structures; corner-sharing GeS , edge-sharing GeS , pyramidal 4 2 P(S ) and quasi-tetrahedral S=P(S ) units for which evidence comes from Raman 1/2 3 1/2 3 scattering. The latter method also shows existence of P S and P S molecules in the 4 7 4 10 glasses segregated from the backbone. These aspects of structure contribute to an intermediate p