Journal of Physical Studies 10(1), 35–38 (2006) DOI: https://doi.org/10.30970/jps.10.35 LONG-TERM PHYSICAL AGEING IN VITREOUS ARSENIC SELENIDES R. Ya. Golovchak{1}, A. Kozdras{2}, M. V. Shpotyuk{3}, O. I. Shpotyuk{1} {1}Lviv Scientific Research Institute of Materials of SRC ‟Carat”, 202, Stryjska St., Lviv, UA-79031, Ukraine {2}Institute of Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry of Opole Technical University, 75, Ozimska St., Opole, PL-45370, Poland {3}Lviv National Polytechnic University 12, Bandery St., Lviv, UA-79013, Ukraine

Effects of long-term physical aging ($\sim $20 years) studied in vitreous arsenic selenides using differential scanning calorimetry are compared with conventional short-term physical aging (up to 1 year). It is shown that these effects differ not only by their amplitudes (increase in glass transition temperature and endothermic peak area near the glass transition), but also by compositional dependences. These results clearly testify in a favour of a sufficient difference in microstructural origin for short- and long-term physical aging in chalcogenide glasses.

PACS number(s): 61.43.Fs, 64.70.Pf

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