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Mössbauer Spectroscopy—A Rewarding Probe of Morphological Structure of Semiconducting Glasses

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Physical Properties of Amorphous Materials

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It has been fashionable to discuss the structure of stoichiometric melt-quenched network glasses in terms of chemically-ordered continuous random networks (CRN) since Zachariasen’s pioneering work on the subject nearly 50 years ago [1]. Glasses of the type AB2, such as SiO2and GeSe2in analogy to a-Ge, for example, have been described as random networks of geometrically well-defined A(B1/2)4 tetrahedral units.

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Boolchand, P. (1985). Mössbauer Spectroscopy—A Rewarding Probe of Morphological Structure of Semiconducting Glasses. In: Adler, D., Schwartz, B.B., Steele, M.C. (eds) Physical Properties of Amorphous Materials. Institute for Amorphous Studies Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2260-1_7

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