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Fluorochlorozirconate Glass Ceramics For Computed Radiography, Adam Wesley Evans
Fluorochlorozirconate Glass Ceramics For Computed Radiography, Adam Wesley Evans
Masters Theses
Heat treating fluorochlorozirconate (FCZ) glasses nucleates nanocrystals in the glass matrix, resulting in a glass ceramic that has optical properties suitable for use as a medical imaging plate. As the temperature of heat treatment rises, the resulting FCZ glass-ceramic becomes increasingly more opaque as the size of the orthorhombic phase BaCl2[barium chloride] nanocrystals grow within the glass matrix. This opaqueness negatively affects imaging. The effect of adding Fe3+[iron] on the valence state of zirconium and overall glass quality was investigated.
Samples were synthesized and characterized with differential scanning calorimetry to determine the temperature of the orthorhombic …
Fluorochlorozirconate Glass Ceramics For Photovoltaic And Computed Radiography Applications, Russell Lee Leonard
Fluorochlorozirconate Glass Ceramics For Photovoltaic And Computed Radiography Applications, Russell Lee Leonard
Doctoral Dissertations
Fluorochlorozirconate (FCZ) glass ceramics are versatile materials whose optical properties may be tuned through compositional or processing changes. For this work, FCZ glasses were synthesized, and then subsequently heat treated to create optically-active glass ceramics. The glasses and glass ceramics were characterized using a number of methods including differential scanning calorimetry, phosphorimetry, x-ray diffraction, and spectrophotometry. Samples were evaluated for applications in photovoltaics and computed radiography–especially those pertaining to intraoral dental radiography and portal imaging.
The ability of FCZ glass ceramics containing hexagonal barium chloride nanocrystals doped with the rare earth elements, holmium and europium, to downshift ultraviolet light to …