MSE/EE 590 Reading Assignments

 

Assignment

For discussion on:

1

Pressure Broadening and Debyes Relaxation Equation

P. Debye, Polar Molecules, The Chemical Catalog Company, Inc., New York, 1929. Section18, pp. 89-95.

9/2/11

2

Polar Liquids under the Influence of High Frequencies

A. R. von Hippel, Dielectrics and Waves, Chapman & Hall, Ltd., New York, 1954. Section 22, pp. 174-178.

9/9/11

3

Dispersion and Absorption in Dielectrics I: Alternating Current Characteristics

K. S. Cole and R. H. Cole, J. Chemical Phys., 9: 341-351, 1941.

9/16/11

4

Dielectric Relaxation in Glycerine D. W. Davidson and R. H. Cole, J. Chemical Phys., 18: 1417, 1950.

Dielectric Relaxation in Glycerol, Propylene Glycol, and n-Propanol D. W. Davidson and R. H. Cole, J. Chemical Phys., 19: 1484-1490, 1950.

9/23/11

Note: no class on 9/30/11

5

A Complex Plane Analysis of α-Dispersions in Some Polymer Systems S. Havriliak and S. Negami, J. Polymer Sci.: Part C, 14: 99-117, 1966.

10/7/11

6

Influence of Cooperative α-Dynamics on Local β-Relaxation during the Development of the Dynamic Glass Transition in Poly(n-alkyl methacrylate)s F. Garwe et al., Macromolecules, 29: 247-253, 1996.

10/14/11

7

Comparative Study of Mechanical and Dielectric Relaxations in Polymers R. Diaz-Calleja and E. Riande, Mater. Sci. and Engng. A, 370: 21-33, 2004.

10/21/11

8

Dielectric study of the dynamics of diblock copolymers polystyrene-b-poly(methylmethacrylate) (PS-b-PMMA) and of PS/PMMA blends J. Liu, H. Guo, X. Pang, Z. Lin, X. Tan, M. Akinc and N. Bowler, Polymer, in preparation.

10/28/11

9

Electromagnetic mixing formulas and applications Ari Sihvola Chapter 1: Introduction.

11/4/11

10

Electromagnetic mixing formulas and applications Ari Sihvola Chapter 3: Classical mixing approach.

11/11/11

11

Electromagnetic mixing formulas and applications Ari Sihvola Chapter 8: Difficulties and uncertainties in classical mixing, and N. Bowler Analysis of the effective permittivity of inhomogeneous dielectrics formed by diblock-copolymer arrays, research note.

11/18/11

12

Electromagnetic mixing formulas and applications Ari Sihvola Chapter 9: Generalized mixing rules.

12/2/11

Presentations

12/9/11

Presentations

12/16/11

 

Background Information

Electrical Conduction in Ionic Ceramics and in Polymers: W. D. Callister, Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction,7th Edn., Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007, pp. 700-711.

Kramers-Kronig Relations: L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz and L. P. Pitaevskii: Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, 2nd Edn., Pergamon Press, 1984, secs. 77 and 82.