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Tellurite And Fluorotellurite Glasses For Active And Passive

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8. Fibre drawing; MDO 342<br />

sectioned by grinding and polishing (see section 6.1.1.1). The glass was pulled into fibre<br />

at around 310°C, under a nitrogen atmosphere (see table (8.2) and (8.3)).<br />

Fig. (8.7): ESEM micrograph of triangular shaped crystals near the surface in the glass<br />

fibre of composition MOF005ii (70TeO2-10Na2O-20ZnF2 mol. %), mounted length-ways<br />

in epoxy resin, and cross-sectioned.<br />

EDX analysis was performed at points A (glass) and B (crystal) and is tabulated later in<br />

this section (table (8.5)). The carbon peaks, assumed due to the presence of epoxy, were<br />

ignored when performing quantitative elemental analysis.<br />

Fig. (8.8) shows an ESEM micrograph of a dendritic snowflake shaped crystal in the<br />

glass fibre of composition MOF005ii (70TeO2-10Na2O-20ZnF2 mol. %), around 50 µm<br />

away from the surface. The fibre was mounted length-ways in epoxy resin, and cross-<br />

sectioned.<br />

Fibre surface<br />

Epoxy<br />

B<br />

Crystals<br />

Fracturing from<br />

sample preparation<br />

A<br />

Glass

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