Induced Quasi-Dynamic Disorder in a Structure of Rhenium Ion-Implanted Quartz Glass

Abstract

The ultraviolet (UV) absorption spectra were studied in UV–Vis–IR quartz glasses exposed to the rhenium ion irradiation at the energy of 30 keV. An increase in ion fluence (5 × 10¹⁵–5 × 10¹⁷ cm²) is found to result in a characteristic fan-shaped broadening of the optical absorption edge of glasses. The results were interpreted in the context of the generalized Urbach rule (the approximation of ion radiation induced quasi-dynamic disorder). The effective radiation disorder cross section of a glass matrix was evaluated from the dose dependence of characteristic Urbach energy. This parameter was found to vary between 1.07 × 10^–17–1.2 × 10^–18 cm² with increasing fluence. The optical gap width of implanted samples was estimated via the Tautz method for allowed direct interband transitions. The relationship between the second-order deformation potential constants, revealing the correlation between the Urbach energy and the optical gap width in a SiO₂ quartz glass matrix was established using the equivalence principle of static and dynamic structural disorder.