Glass/dopant combination

The potential application of organic and polymeric materials, especially glassy polymers, is promising as evidenced by the pertinent material properties. A model nonlinear optical glassy polymer system, combining the large nonlinear susceptibilities of the dopant and favorable optical properties of the host polymer glass, was fabricated and evaluated. The nonlinear optical... 

The reference electrode of these oxygen sensors consists of a platinum electrode in a reference gas with defined oxygen partial pressure, which is separated fi om the melt by a wall of doped zirconia solid electrolyte with unit oxide transport number. Yttria (Y2O3) is used as the second oxide (dopant), which renders the doped oxide solid electrolyte more stable than calcium oxide (CaO) and magnesium oxide (MgO), which have also been tried as the second component of the doped ceramic but were found rather unsatisfactory. Practical units applied in laboratory and industrial glass melts consist of a combination of the essential (platinum) electrode and the zirconia electrolyte, which are constmcted for easy handling. These units are called... 

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