Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 February 2017
Glasses of the series (mol.%) 40 Na2O, (20-x)Al2O3, x Fe2O3, 40P2O5 were irradiated with 8 MeV electrons to dosesequivalent of 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 MGy and characterized by FTIR spectroscopy andESR at room temperature. FTIR spectra of all the glasses consist of strong bandsdue to O-P-O stretching modes in (PO4)3- and(P2O7)4- units at 1000-1200cm-1, P-O-P stretching modes at 900-950 cm-1(νas) and 700-750 cm-1(νs), and bending modes in the PO4 units. Thewavenumber range lower 800 cm-1 has some contribution due tostretching modes in MO4 and MO6 (M = Al, Fe)units. Moreover the bands at 3300-3700 cm-1 and 1550-1650cm-1 due to stretching and bending modes in both absorbed andstructurally bound H2O molecules were present. As irradiation doseincreases the bands due to stretching and bending modes in water molecules andM-O-H bonds become stronger and are split. No essential changes with increasingdose were observed within the spectral range of stretching modes of the O-P-Oand P-O-P bonds. Irradiation yields phosphorus-oxygen hole centers -PO4 2- (D 5) andPO4 2- (D 6), andPO3 2- ion-radicals (D 2)observable in ESR spectra of low-Fe glasses. At x>5 their responses areoverlapped with strong broad line due to Fe(III). On the whole, with theincrease in iron content the glass structural evolution decrease.