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Short review and prospective: chalcogenide glass mid-infrared fibre lasers (2024)
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Seddon, A. B., Farries, M., Nunes, J. J., Xiao, B., Furniss, D., Barney, E., Phang, S., Chahal, S., Kalfagiannis, N., Sojka, Ł., & Sujecki, S. (2024). Short review and prospective: chalcogenide glass mid-infrared fibre lasers. European Physical Journal Plus, 139(2), Article 142. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04841-1

Rare-earth ion doped, silica glass, optical fibre amplifiers have transformed the world by enabling high speed communications and the Internet. Fibre lasers, based on rare-earth ion doped silica glass optical fibres, achieve high optical powers and a... Read More about Short review and prospective: chalcogenide glass mid-infrared fibre lasers.

Deuterium occupation of interatomic hole sites in Ni67Zr33 amorphous alloy (2023)
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Itoh, K., Saida, J., Barney, E. R., & Hannon, A. C. (2023). Deuterium occupation of interatomic hole sites in Ni67Zr33 amorphous alloy. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 961, Article 171094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2023.171094

The occupation of interatomic hole sites by deuterium in a deuterated Ni67Zr33 amorphous alloy was investigated using diffraction measurements and a combination of reverse Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulation techniques. The results show tha... Read More about Deuterium occupation of interatomic hole sites in Ni67Zr33 amorphous alloy.

Room temperature mid-infrared fiber lasing beyond 5  µm in chalcogenide glass small-core step index fiber (2021)
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Nunes, J. J., Sojka, Ł., Crane, R. W., Furniss, D., Tang, Z. Q., Mabwa, D., …Sujecki, S. (2021). Room temperature mid-infrared fiber lasing beyond 5  µm in chalcogenide glass small-core step index fiber. Optics Letters, 46(15), 3504-3507. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.430891

We report mid-infrared fiber lasing for the first time above 5 µm in a room temperature, Ce 3+ doped, chalcogenide glass, step index fiber using in-band pumping with a 4.15 µm quantum cascade laser. The lasing fiber is 64 mm long, with a calculated n... Read More about Room temperature mid-infrared fiber lasing beyond 5  µm in chalcogenide glass small-core step index fiber.

Atomic structure of sodium iron phosphate glasses (2020)
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Al‐Hasni, B. M., Mountjoy, G., & Barney, E. (2021). Atomic structure of sodium iron phosphate glasses. International Journal of Applied Glass Science, 12(2), 245-258. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijag.15865

The atomic structure of a series of sodium iron phosphate glasses is studied using different experimental techniques: X-ray and neutron diffraction (ND), infrared spectroscopy, extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS), and X-ray absorption ne... Read More about Atomic structure of sodium iron phosphate glasses.

Toward a Structural Model for the Aluminum Tellurite Glass System (2020)
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Barney, E., Laorodphan, N., Mohd-Noor, F., Holland, D., Kemp, T., Iuga, D., & Dupree, R. (2020). Toward a Structural Model for the Aluminum Tellurite Glass System. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124(37), 20516–20529. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c04342

Neutron diffraction, 27Al MAS NMR, and 27Al Double Quantum MAS NMR results are presented and analyzed to determine the local environments of the cations in a series of aluminum tellurite glasses. Total scattering results show that, within a maximum T... Read More about Toward a Structural Model for the Aluminum Tellurite Glass System.

Experimental photoluminescence and lifetimes at wavelengths including beyond 7 microns in Sm3+-doped selenide-chalcogenide glass fibers (2020)
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Crane, R. W., Sojka, Ł., Furniss, D., Nunes, J., Barney, E., Farries, M. C., …Seddon, A. B. (2020). Experimental photoluminescence and lifetimes at wavelengths including beyond 7 microns in Sm3+-doped selenide-chalcogenide glass fibers. Optics Express, 28(8), 12373-12384. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.383033

1000 ppmw Sm3+-doped Ge19.4Sb9.7Se67.9Ga3 atomic % chalcogenide bulk glass and unstructured fiber are prepared. Near- and mid-infrared absorption spectra of the bulk glass reveal Sm3+ electronic absorption bands, and extrinsic vibrational absorption... Read More about Experimental photoluminescence and lifetimes at wavelengths including beyond 7 microns in Sm3+-doped selenide-chalcogenide glass fibers.

Neutron Diffraction and Raman Studies of the Incorporation of Sulfate in Silicate Glasses (2020)
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Vaishnav, S., Hannon, A. C., Barney, E. R., & Bingham, P. A. (2020). Neutron Diffraction and Raman Studies of the Incorporation of Sulfate in Silicate Glasses. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 124(9), 5409-5424. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b10924

Thermal and crystallization kinetics of yttrium-doped phosphate-based glasses (2019)
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Arafat, A., Samad, S. A., Wadge, M. D., Islam, M. T., Lewis, A. L., Barney, E. R., & Ahmed, I. (2020). Thermal and crystallization kinetics of yttrium-doped phosphate-based glasses. International Journal of Applied Glass Science, 11(1), 120-133. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijag.14163

© 2019 The American Ceramic Society and Wiley Periodicals, Inc Yttrium-doped glasses have been utilized for biomedical applications such as radiotherapy, especially for liver cancer treatment. In this paper, the crystallization behavior of phosphate-... Read More about Thermal and crystallization kinetics of yttrium-doped phosphate-based glasses.

Multicomposition EPSR: toward transferable potentials to model chalcogenide glass structures (2016)
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Towey, J. J., & Barney, E. R. (2016). Multicomposition EPSR: toward transferable potentials to model chalcogenide glass structures. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120(51), 13169-13183. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b08793

The structure of xAs40Se60–(1 – x)As40S60 glasses, where x = 1.000, 0.667, 0.500, 0.333, 0.250, and 0.000, is investigated using a combination of neutron and X-ray diffraction coupled with computational modeling using multicomposition empirical poten... Read More about Multicomposition EPSR: toward transferable potentials to model chalcogenide glass structures.

Dy3+-doped selenide chalcogenide glasses: influence of Dy3+ dopant-aditive and containment (2016)
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This work reports on process‐induced impurities in rare‐earth ion: Dy3+‐doped selenide chalcogenide glasses, which are significant materials for active photonic devices in the mid‐infrared region. In particular, the effect of contamination from t... Read More about Dy3+-doped selenide chalcogenide glasses: influence of Dy3+ dopant-aditive and containment.

Alkali environments in tellurite glasses (2015)
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Barney, E. R., Hannon, A. C., Holland, D., Umesaki, N., & Tatsumisago, M. (2015). Alkali environments in tellurite glasses. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 414, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2015.01.023

Neutron diffraction measurements are reported for five binary alkali tellurite glasses, xM2O · (100 − x)TeO2 (containing 10 and 20 mol% K2O, 10 and 19 mol% Na2O, and 20 mol% 7Li2O), together with 23Na MAS NMR measurements for the sodium containing gl... Read More about Alkali environments in tellurite glasses.

Correlating structure with non-linear optical properties in xAs40Se60 x (1 ? x)As40S60 glasses (2015)
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A series of xAs40Se60·(100 − x)As40S60 glasses, where x = 0, 25, 33, 50, 67, 75 and 100 mol% As40Se60, has been studied using neutron and X-ray total scattering, Raman spectroscopy and 77Se MAS-NMR. The results are presented with measurements of non-... Read More about Correlating structure with non-linear optical properties in xAs40Se60 x (1 ? x)As40S60 glasses.

The local environment of Dy3+in selenium-rich chalcogenide glasses (2014)
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Barney, E. R., Tang, Z., Seddon, A., Furniss, D., Sujecki, S., Benson, T. M., …Gianolio, D. (in press). The local environment of Dy3+in selenium-rich chalcogenide glasses. RSC Advances, 4(80), https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA07192A

The environment of Dy3+ is investigated when it is added as DyCl3 or Dy foil into two base glasses, Ge16.5As19−xGaxSe64.5, where x = 3 or 10 at%, at doping levels between 0 and 3000 parts per million by weight (ppmw) Dy3+. Extended X-ray Absorption F... Read More about The local environment of Dy3+in selenium-rich chalcogenide glasses.