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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 19, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/19/20/205104
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Dielectric, depolarized light scattering ( LS) and optical Kerr effect (OKE) data are critically discussed in an attempt to achieve a common interpretation of the evolution of dynamic susceptibility in molecular glass formers at temperatures down to the glass transition Tg. The so-called intermediate power-law, observed in OKE data below a certain temperature Tx, is identified with the excess wing, long since known from dielectric spectroscopy, with a temperature-independent exponent. This is in contrast with several recent analyses that concluded a considerable temperature dependence of spectral shapes. We introduce a new approach to disentangle alpha-peak and excess wing contributions in the dielectric spectra, which allows for frequency-temperature superposition ( FTS) of the alpha-process at all temperatures above Tg. From the LS spectra we conclude, in particular, that FTS holds even at temperatures well above the melting point, i.e. in normal equilibrium liquids. Attempting to correlate the fragility and stretching, our conclusions are opposite to those made previously. Specifically, we observe that a high fragility is associated with a less stretched relaxation function.
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