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This paper develops an approach to investigation of a solid as an integral system whose fundamental properties are determined by the energetics of its structure. Addressing the subject from a unified viewpoint, we consider the formation, accumulation, and transformations of defects in silicate and aluminophosphate glasses, which emit electromagnetic waves in a wide frequency range as a result of cracking. It has been shown that electron irradiation causes spontaneous electrical discharges, whose magnitude depends on the electron energy and irradiation time. The discharges occur at surface defects. Brush discharges develop in a layer where charged particles are distributed. In a thin layer of a charged dielectric, we observe a breakdown effect. The electrical discharge concentrates at surface defects, which can be produced in advance. A discharge can be initiated by approaching a grounded metallic tip to a charged surface even some time after irradiation. A discharge, mechanical loading, cooling, or heating of glass is accompanied by not only a light burst but also electromagnetic emission (EME), which correlates well with a polymorphic transformation process, thermoluminescence, etc. Thus, the release of accumulated energy from unirradiated and irradiated inorganic glasses on heating and cooling is accompanied by pulsed EME, whose intensity depends on the energy stored in the material.
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Original Russian Text © B.V. Fedorov, N.B. Panchenko, Yu.S. Berdova, 2018, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2018, Vol. 54, No. 8.
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Fedorov, B.V., Panchenko, N.B. & Berdova, Y.S. Effects of Mechanical Load and Ionizing Radiation on Glass. Inorg Mater 54, 844–850 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168518080058
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