Volume 2, Issue 2

Original research papers

Radiation Effects

RADIATION-INDUCED OPTICAL EFFECTS IN CHALCOGENIDE SEMICONDUCTOR GLASSES

O. Shpotyuk, M. Shpotyuk, S. Ubizskii

Pages: 94-100

DOI: 10.21175/RadJ.2017.02.021

Received: 14 FEB 2017, Received revised: 26 APR 2017, Accepted: 3 JUL 2017, Published online: 28 OCT 2017

A variety of methodological resolutions suitable to identify unambiguously radiation-induced effects in chalcogenide glassy semiconductors is analyzed in details. The radiation-optical effects in chalcogenide glasses are comprehensively considered as resulting from both intrinsic and impurity-related redistribution of covalent chemical bonds known as destruction-polymerization transformations. Two types of experimental measuring protocols are utilized to study the radiation-induced effects within ex-situ direct or in-situ backward chronology, the latter being more adequate for correct testing of competitive inputs from both channels of destruction-polymerization transformations. A critical assessment is given on misleading speculations of some authors ignoring intrinsic radiation-structural transformations in glassy As2S3 in view of accompanying oxidation and thermally-induced physical-ageing processes. In final, the As2S3 glass is nominated to be the best model object among a wide group of chalcogenide glassy semiconductors revealing the highest sensitivity to radiation-induced metastability.
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