Borate Based Glasses and Transparent Glass-Microcrystal Composites

This thesis contains detailed study on borate-based glasses and transparent glass-microcrystal composites.These glasses were found to be crystallizing to known non-linear optical phases on controlled heating. These glasses have been investigated for their dielectric and electrical relaxation properties.Several interesting features such as high ionic conductivity behavior, marginally low dielectric loss and high dielectric constant behavior along with low thermal coefficient for dielectric constant were observed in these glasses and were interpreted using various techniques and models. The combination of these dielectric characteristics suggests that these are good candidates for electrical energy storage device applications.

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Rahul Vaish obtained Ph.D. degree in 2010 from the department of Materials Research at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. His research focuses on glasses, glass-ceramics and dielectric science. He has authored or co-authored over 40 papers in various international journals.