X-ray diffraction, electron paramagnetic resonance, and electron spin echo modulation studies of the lead oxide-lead chloride-cupric chloride ternary glass system

Abstract

X-ray diffraction, EPR, and ESEM studies are reported for a novel ternary glass 43PbO-56PbCl2-1 CuCl2. The X-ray PDF data lead to a structural model in which octahedral building units of Cu04Cl2 are predominant. EPR spectra of the glass at X and Q bands have been fitted, by line shape simulation, to the distributed spin Hamiltonian parameters g^rnean) = 2.34, = 0.03, gx(mean) = 2.06, ± = 0.008, p = 0.95, /4,(mean) = 131.1 X 10"4 cm"1, and /4x(mean) = 5.8 X 10"4 cm"1. These data suggest a distribution of bonding geometries for Cu2+ in the glass structure, with the above-mentioned elongated octahedral Cu04Cl2 dominating. ESEM results suggest that Cu2+ may be surrounded by four Pb2+ in the second coordination shell at a distance of 3.8 Á.