• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.35 no.11
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• pp.1148-1154
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• 1998

Ga K-edge EXAFS spectra of PbO-Ga2O3 glasses were recorded at liquid nitrogen temperature and analyz-ed in order to quantitatively understand the medium-range-order arrangement around gallium in the glasses. The second peak was generated from a backscattering of the neighbor balliums and the Ga-Ga distance is ~3.13 A with Ga coordination number of ~2.7 Therefore GaO4 tetrahedra are connected through the cor-ner~sharing mode and form their own clusters made of the tetrahedra sharing more than 3 corners while some chains or rings are also present. These connection schemes of the GaO4 tetrahedra are believed to form the substantial part of the network structure.