• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.179-184
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• 2008

(40-x)BaO${\cdot}xFe_2O_3{\cdot}60P_2O_5$ glasses with $5{\leq}x{\leq}35mol%$ were investigated by ESR spectroscopy. Two resonances observed near g=2.0 and g=4.3. The line at g=4.3 disappeared with the increase of the $Fe_2O_3$ content. The resonance at $g{\approx}2.0$ displayed characteristic signal consisting of superposed extremely broad and narrow components. The broader one indicates the presence of the association of two or more $Fe^{3+}$ ions, antiferromagnetically and the narrow one is related to the microclusters involving iron ions. Temperature dependence of the ESR integrated intensity revealed short-range antiferromagnetic character for $x{\geq}15mol%$.