The glass transition beyond the time trap: Opto-acoustic dispersion

Autor: K.-P. Bohn, Jan-Kristian Krüger, Mami Matsukawa
Rok vydání: 1998
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Zdroj: Phase Transitions. 65:279-289
ISSN: 1029-0338
0141-1594
DOI: 10.1080/01411599808209291
Popis: High-resolution Brillouin spectroscopy has been used as a crucial experimental technique to investigate the nature of the thermal glass transition in an epoxy. In order to study the coupling between the α-relaxation process and the thermal glass transition around the quasi-static glass transition temperature T g we introduce the opto-acoustic dispersion function as a very sensitive measure of the α-relaxations and show that close to but above T g the related relaxation spectrum still contains components within the microwave frequency region which finally is truncated by the thermal glass transition.
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