Structure and magnetic susceptibility of irradiated sodium borate glasses containing nickel oxide

The effect of introducing soda to boric oxide on the optical absorption infrared spectra and magnetic susceptibility of sodium borate glass system containing nickel oxide was studied. It was found that increasing of Na2O helps in forming the BO4 group and nonbridging oxygen and the nickel ions change from the octahedral state to the tetrahedral state. The magnetic susceptibility also increases rapidly with gradual increase of soda content up to 20 mol%, and then slightly increases, this may be due to the change in the coordination number of nickel ions. Also the effect of the addition of nickel oxide was studied, it was found that the values of magnetic susceptibility increases with the gradual increase of the nickel oxide, which is due to the increase of Ni2+ in octahedral coordination.