High-field and high-pressure behavior of microwave-prepared xCuO:(45−x) PbO: 55V 2 O 5 (x ס 0 to 20) glasses were investigated for the first time. It was found that the addition of CuO significantly alters the nonlinear I-V characteristics of these glasses; while the glasses with x ס 10 exhibit a current-controlled negative resistance behavior associated with a memory type transition, glasses with x ס 15 show a threshold-type behavior. Remarkable differences were also noticed in the high-pressure electrical resistivity behavior between the low-and high-CuO-containing glasses. Corroborative thermal, electrical, microscopic, and spectroscopic measurements were carried out to understand the structure-property relations. A structural model was proposed, which is based on the chemical nature of the constituents present in the glasses. The model accounts well for the various observed properties of these glasses.
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MATERIALS RESEARCHa Dulong-Petit heat capacity values for all the above glasses ס 118.5 J K −1 mol −1 .B. Vaidhyanathan et al.: Effect of CuO addition on the high-field and high-pressure behavior of microwave-prepared lead vanadate glasses