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Viscosity of silica and doped silica melts: evidence for a crossover temperature
Author(s) -
Mauro John C.,
Kurkjian Charles R.,
Gupta Prabhat K.,
Kob Walter
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/jace.18090
Subject(s) - activation energy , viscosity , dopant , glass transition , arrhenius equation , materials science , temperature dependence of liquid viscosity , impurity , mineralogy , thermodynamics , doping , chemistry , composite material , relative viscosity , organic chemistry , polymer , optoelectronics , physics
Silica is known as the archetypal strong liquid, exhibiting an Arrhenius viscosity curve with a high glass transition temperature and constant activation energy. However, given the ideally isostatic nature of the silica network, the presence of even a small concentration of defects can lead to a significant decrease in both the glass transition temperature and activation energy for viscous flow. To understand the impact of trace level dopants on the viscosity of silica, we measure the viscosity‐temperature curves for seven silica glass samples having different impurities, including four natural and three synthetic samples. Depending on the type of dopant, the glass transition temperature can vary by nearly 300 K. A common crossover is found for all viscosity curves around ~2200–2500 K, which we attribute to a change of the transport mechanism in the melt from being dominated by intrinsic defects at high temperature to dopant‐induced defects at low temperatures.