Asymmetry in the local structural order in arsenic chalcogenide glasses: High field NMR in crystalline and glassy As 2Se 3

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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of 75As in crystalline and glassy samples of As 2Se 3 has been studied at magnetic fields up to 22 T. The results, which yield asymmetries in the electric field gradient at the arsenic sites that disagree with those inferred from previous low field studies, are inconsistent with the predictions of a common model (Raft Model) for the structure of glassy As 2Se 3 and other chalcogenide glasses. This technique should be useful for many other solids that contain one of the twenty elements whose nuclei have spin 3 2 and relatively large quadrupole moment.