K. Fukumi et al., STRUCTURE OF OXYGEN, BORON AND NICKEL ION-IMPLANTED SILICA GLASSES, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 91(1-4), 1994, pp. 413-417
The structure of silica glass damaged by 1 MeV O+-, 1 MeV B+- and 4 Me
V Ni2+-ion implantations has been investigated by X-ray diffraction, i
nfrared reflection and ultraviolet absorption measurements. It is foun
d that Si atoms form SiO4 tetrahedra in the damaged regions, as in the
unimplanted glass. It is deduced that the average Si-O-Si bond angle
decreases with ion implantations. The middle range ordering becomes re
duced in the damaged regions. The structure of glasses damaged by the
implantations of these ions resemble each other.