Fabrication and characterization of glass and glass-ceramic from rice husk ash as a potent material for opto-electronic applications

• Main Authors: Lee, Chee Sun, Matori, Khamirul Amin, Ab Aziz, Sidek, Mohamed Kamari, Halimah, Ismail, Ismayadi, Mohd Zaid, Mohd Hafiz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2017
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/61835/1/Fabrication%20and%20characterization%20of%20glass%20and%20glass-ceramic%20.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/61835/; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10854-017-7699-3

Zinc silicate (ZnO–SiO2) glass system were fabricated using melt-quench method with zinc oxide (ZnO) and white rice husk ash (WRHA) with compositions of (ZnO)x(WRHA)1−x where (x = 0.55, 0.60, 0.65 and 0.70 wt%). Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transform...