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DIELECTRIC relaxation has long been recognized as a powerful method of studying the physical state of a system containing polar molecules or groups. At the same time a number of inevitably time-consuming frequency domain techniques are usually required to cover a reasonably wide range of frequency, each demanding the highest degree of experimental expertise. We report here the application of one variant of time domain Spectroscopy (TDS) to the study of dielectric relaxation processes in the frequency range 10 MHz–15 GHz, to illustrate the enormous potential of this method, by virtue of its simplicity of operation, for the relatively rapid estimation of the parameters usually associated with a dielectric relaxation process.
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SUGGETT, A., MACKNESS, P., TAIT, M. et al. Dielectric Relaxation Studies by Time Domain Spectroscopy. Nature 228, 456–457 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228456a0
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