Structural relaxation of E' gamma centers in amorphous silica
Materials Science
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We report experimental evidence of the existence of two variants of the E' gamma centers induced in silica by gamma rays at room temperature. The two variants are distinguishable by the fine features of their line shapes in paramagnetic resonance spectra. These features suggest that the two E' gamma differ for their topology. We find a thermally induced interconversion between the centers with an activation energy of about 34 meV. Hints are also found for the existence of a structural configuration of minimum energy and of a metastable state.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0203280,
title = {Structural relaxation of E' gamma centers in amorphous silica},
author = {S. Agnello and R. Boscaino and G. Buscarino and M. Cannas and F. M. Gelardi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0203280},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett