Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy

Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Applications explores the current landscape of BDS in detail, with a focus on techniques, analytical tools, devices, and materials, leading to a critical and pedagogical overview of the field. This book covers both the theory and fundamentals of BDS, as well as the most recent advances in the field with a specific focus on is its application within advanced materials. Sections I provides a strong theoretical background and foundational overview, as well as explaining how experimental tests can be conducted, discussing the methods of analysing data via various formalisms, detailed methods, and example case studies. The book then builds on this overview by exploring the ways in which BDS intersects with and can be used in conjunction other analytical and spectroscopic techniques. Sections II and III build on this theoretical knowledge to delve into the real-world applications of BDS across scientific disciplines and industries. Section IV explores a wide array of materials, exploring how BDS can be used in cutting edge ways on some of the most important materials used in chemical and material science research, such as: solution materials, polymers, hybrid polymers and nanocomposites, ionic liquids, and active dielectrics. This section covers the ways in which BDS can be used within these fabrication, quality control and sensing and monitoring of processes in these materials. Finally, given that BDS is a potent experimental tool that can be utilised by many researchers in myriad distinct fields of science, Section V of this book uses case studies and detailed methods and protocols to explore examples of how it can be used across various industries to great effect. This book guides the reader through formalism of BDS through to applications in different materials and will make an excellent resource for students (both upper undergraduate and postgraduate), researchers and engineers looking to work with this technique, primarily materials chemists, analytical chemists, materials scientists, physicists, and physical chemists working with BDS or working on advanced materials, dielectric materials, materials for electronics and in the area of dielectric relaxation processes for advanced applications. Given that this book also focuses on the intersections between BDS and other correlated analytical methods across industries, it will also be of great interest to engineers in the fields of polymers, composites, ceramics, electronic communications, and energy industries working on dielectrics and related materials and applications.