materials Article Spectroscopic Properties of Erbium-Doped Oxyfluoride Phospho-Tellurite Glass and Transparent Glass-Ceramic Containing BaF2 Nanocrystals Magdalena Lesniak 1,* , Jacek Zmojda 2, Marcin Kochanowicz 2 , Piotr Miluski 2 , Agata Baranowska 3 , Gabriela Mach 1, Marta Kuwik 4, Joanna Pisarska 4, Wojciech A. Pisarski 4 and Dominik Dorosz 1 1 Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Av. Mickiewicza 30, 30059 Krakow, Poland;
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[email protected] Received: 21 August 2019; Accepted: 17 October 2019; Published: 20 October 2019 Abstract: The ErF3-doped oxyfluoride phospho-tellurite glasses in the (40-x) TeO2-10P2O5-45 (BaF2-ZnF2) -5Na2O-xErF3 system (where x = 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00, and 1.25 mol%) have been prepared by the conventional melt-quenching method. The effect of erbium trifluoride addition on thermal, structure, and spectroscopic properties of oxyfluoride phospho-tellurite precursor glass was studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR), and Raman spectroscopy as well as emission measurements, respectively.