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Chalcogenide Glasses Selected as a Model System for Studying Thermal Properties

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Glassy, Amorphous and Nano-Crystalline Materials

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Chalcogenide glasses have been intensively studied from the seventieth of twentieth century as the important new class of promising high-tech materials for semiconducting devices and infrared optics. Chalcogenide glasses are formed by chalcogens, stoichiometric chalcogenides, e.g. germanium and/or arsenic sulfides or selenides or by non-stoichiometrics alloys whose composition (and physicochemical properties) can be modified in broad ranges. They have unique optical properties – low phonon energies as compared with oxide glasses, high refractive index, infrared luminescence and so on. The advantage of many chalcogenide glasses is that they can be obtained using very simple technologies.

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This work was supported continuously by the project of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic MSM 0021627501.

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  1. Faculty of Chemical Technology Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Pardubice, nám. Legií 565, 53210, Pardubice, Czech Republic

    Zdeněk Černošek & Jana Holubová

  2. Joint Laboratory of Solid State Chemistry of Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic and University of Pardubice, Studentská 84, 53210, Pardubice, Czech Republic

    Eva Černošková

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Černošek, Z., Černošková, E., Holubová, J. (2011). Chalcogenide Glasses Selected as a Model System for Studying Thermal Properties. In: Šesták, J., Mareš, J., Hubík, P. (eds) Glassy, Amorphous and Nano-Crystalline Materials. Hot Topics in Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2882-2_9

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