Effect of Compositional Dependence on the Physical Properties of Sn-Se-Sb Chalcogenide Glasses

Abstract

Sn13Se87-xSbx (x = 0, 3, 6, 9, 12) glassy system is synthesized by melt quench technique. This glassy system has been studied for various physical parameters viz. coordination number, lone pair of electrons, number of constraints, bond energy, heat of atomization, glass transition temperature, cohesive energy, band gap and mean bond energy. From the physical analysis it is generalized that the average number of constraints, average heat of atomization, mean bond energy, glass transition temperature and cohesive energy are found to increase whereas numbers of lone pair of electrons calculated are found to decrease with the increase in the antimony content in the composition of the alloy. The increase in glass transition temperature has been explicated on the basis of accumulation of antimony atoms in selenium chain.