Vol. 30, Issue 4, pp. 553-568 (2000)

Abstract

Basic optical characteristics were studied to reveal the structure of porous glass samples. Acid leaching technology was used to manufacture porous glasses from the bulk of phase-separated alkali borosilicate glasses. The transmission electron microscopy, selected area diffraction and shadow graph techniques, optical microscopy and spectrophotometry, reflective ellipsometry were used to obtain new information about some inhomogeneities such as strata and spindle-like silica precipitates as well as boron containing microcrystalline phases inside porous glasses.