Role of Mn2+ ions on optical and luminescent properties of CaF2–Y2O3–ZnO–B2O3–SiO2 glasses

Abstract

MnO doped CaF2–Y2O3–ZnO–B2O3–SiO2 glasses were synthesized. Different physical parameters of these glass materials such as density, molar volume, electronegativity, optical basicity and refractive index were calculated. The glass transition and glass crystallization temperatures of these glasses were measured by DTA analysis. The mechanical properties such as Young’s modulus, Shear modulus, Bulk modulus, Poisson’s ratio and microhardness of these materials were also calculated. Different characterization such as FT-IR, ESR, DC conductivity, optical absorption and photoluminescence were carried out on the prepared glass samples. ESR studies of these glass materials exhibited sextet at lower concentrations of MnO. The optical bandgap, Urbach energy, transition probability and emission cross section of these glass materials were calculated. Semiconducting nature of these glass materials was also observed due to the significant increase in BO3 and MnO6 units with increasing concentration of MnO. Optical absorption studies revealed that the increase in intensity of different octahedral peaks were due to the increase in concentration of MnO. Photoemission occurs around 545 to 567.3 nm suggested that the emission was red-shifted for higher MnO concentration and green-shifted for lower MnO concentration.