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    Study of surface changes on industrial glasses with AFM, FE-SEM, EDX, SNMS and LM : Part 1. Glass skin and corrosion
    (Offenbach : Verlag der Deutschen Glastechnischen Gesellschaft, 2004) Wang, Chun; Häfner, Wolfgang; Krausch, Georg; Rädlein, Edda; Tratzky, Stephan; Schramm, Manfred; Martinek, Klaus-Peter
    By combining different analytieal techniques, including modern high resolution imaging tools such as field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM), new phenomena in the surface, near surface and bulk structure of various industrial glasses (without any cleaning process) have been diseovered. Investigations of soda-lime-silica container glass and lead silicate glass tubings exposed to atmospheric and to dried air are presented. The results of the first part of this paper can be explained with an SiO2 rich skin on the glass, which can protect the glass against the attack of external media. If the skin was mechanically injured, inhomogeneous corrosion products on pm scale grew around the injured site after exposure to humid air for times between days up to one year. Microchannels were formed through the injured site due to restricted ion exchange, followed by a local increase of the pH value and consequently the dissolution of the glass network. Finally some stress in the glass, yielded during manufacture, can be partially released and the cutting behaviour is improved. Faster cooling results in a thinner skin and the ions in the glass are able to migrate to the surface more easily when surrounded by some reactive media. Slower cooling results in thicker skin and wax-like droplets instead of erystallites are formed on the surface at a later stage in humid air. The wax-like droplets can etch the glass skin locally, followed by the growth of inhomogeneous corrosion products similar to the injury induced corrosion. If the fresh glass surface was hot-end treated, the quality of the adjacent coating layer depended strongly on the thickness of the skin.
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    Study of surface changes on industrial glasses with AFM, FE-SEM, EDX, SNMS and LM : Part 2. Surface changes by water drop etching, annealing at atmosphere and flame treatment
    (Offenbach : Verlag der Deutschen Glastechnischen Gesellschaft, 2004) Wang, Chun; Krausch, Georg; Rädlein, Edda; Tratzky, Stephan; Schramm, Manfred; Weber, Andreas
    One of the possible defects in sputter coating layers are cone shaped rods which originate from the float glass surface on the atmosphere side. The glass surface had been etched by wax-like corrosion droplets and holes were formed into the glass skin after washing. This results in inhomogeneity on the surface, which induces an inhomogenous deposition pattern of the material on the surface during the process of sputtering. In contrast, the tin bath side is shown to be an ideal coating surface without any inhomogen eity. In some eases however, it could not be bent above the glass transition temperature (Tg) in air due to formation of bloom patterns, which make the glass milky. Our studies revealed that phase separation is the ultimate cause of the observed bloom formation. In addition, sulphur flakes and needle-like nanocrystallites were detected on the tin bath side as well as hexagonal nanocrystallites on the atmosphere side of the annealed float glass. It was also found that flame treatment of borosilieate and lead crystal glasses induced two changes on the glass surfaces. These are precipitation of evaporation products and phase separation beneath the glass skin. The samples were studied by a combination of field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) with different accelerating voltages and atomic force microscopy (AFM).