ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a much different approach to photosensitive processes in glass, or perhaps the more appropriate word would be "on" glass, since it will be more of a surface reaction. It describes a method of preparing three dimensionally quantum confined structures of II-VI and IV-VI compounds utilizing a porous glass structure. The method involves a gas phase reaction of appropriate compounds impregnated in a porous glass support. The chapter lists a partial but representative number of the candidate photosensitive molecules and structures that were initially studied that were loaded into the porous Vycor glass and then exposed to light in the spectral region listed. A brief summary of the results is given for the magnetic properties of the iron oxide impregnated and consolidated Vycor samples. The chapter shows the RT hysteresis loops for two samples that were UV-exposed and then consolidated at 1200°C.
