Study of the effect of alkali mixture on VO bond length in Oxyfluoro Vanadate glasses using Raman spectroscopy

• We studied the Raman scattering in Oxyfluoro Vanadate glasses with various proportions of Alkali (Li and Rb).
• Peak Shift and FWHM of these samples were determined and interpreted in connection with variation in local environment.
• An estimation of bond length is made using Raman frequency shifts.

Raman spectroscopic study on Oxyfluoro Vanadate glasses containing various proportions of lithium fluoride and rubidium fluoride was carried out to see an effect of mixture of alkali on vanadium–oxygen (VO) bond length. Glasses with a general formula 40V2O5 − 30BaF2 − (30 − x) LiF − xRbF (x = 0–30) were prepared. Room temperature Raman spectra of these glass samples were recorded in back scattering geometry. The data presented is in “reduced Raman intensity” form with maximum peak scaled to 100. We have used υ = Aexp(BR), where A and B are fitting parameters, to correlate the bond length R with Raman scattering frequency υ. We observed that variation in bond length and its distribution about a most probable value can be correlated to the alkali environment present in these glasses. We also observed that all rubidium environment around the network forming unit is more homogenous than all lithium environment.