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The Dynamics of Interacting Systems: Glassy Ionic Conductors and Glass-Forming Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

K. L. Ngai and
A. K. Rizos
K. L. Ngai
Affiliation:
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375-5437 USA, ngai@estd.nrl.navy.mil
A. K. Rizos
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, and FORTH, Heraklion 71409, Crete, Greece
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Abstract

The dynamics of densely packed interacting systems including glass-forming materials and glassy ionic conductors of various chemical and micro structures have been investigated experimentally by many workers, covering an immense time range from microscopic times shorter than 10−12 s to macroscopic times as long as 104 s. The short time dynamics is fundamental because it can directly reveal the microscopic mechanism of the relaxation. Several experimental investigations of structural relaxation in glass-forming substances have found that the short time dynamics shows exponential relaxation with a correlation function well described by exp(−t/τo) for t<t c where t c is temperature insensitive and has the order of magnitude of a picosecond. The correlation function then crosses over at t c to assumes the stretched exponential form, exp[−(t/τ)β], for t>t c. The relaxation times τ and τo are related by the expression τ = [t c −(1−β)τo]1/β. In this work, we focus on glassy ionic conductors and ionic glass-forming materials and experiments that employ dielectric spectroscopic and conductivity relaxation techniques, the theme of this Symposium. We show that these experimental data exhibit the same feature as described above for structural relaxation and are in accord with the predictions of the coupling model proposed by one of the authors.

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