F. Pizzitutti et F. Bruni, Electrode and interfacial polarization in broadband dielectric spectroscopy measurements, REV SCI INS, 72(5), 2001, pp. 2502-2504
The accumulation of charge carriers at the sample-electrode interface in br
oadband dielectric spectroscopy results in large electrode polarization mas
king the frequency response of the sample. Additionally, heterogeneous samp
les exhibit frequency-dependent dielectric and conductive properties that d
iffer from those of the constituent components, yielding so-called Maxwell-
Wagner relaxation. We present here an experimental approach to extract true
sample dielectric properties from the total frequency response of the elec
trode-sample assembly. A test case (i.e., ice) is shown to prove the correc
tness of the proposed method. Results also confirm that polarization due to
blocking electrodes is not negligible even in the MHz frequency range. (C)
2001 American Institute of Physics.