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Observation of structural relaxations in disordered solid media via spectral histories of single impurity molecules

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This paper presents the technique and results of the investigation of the structural relaxation in disordered solid media (polyisobutylene, toluene, ortho-dichlorobenzene) at temperatures below the glass transition point via the spectra and fluorescence images of single impurity fluorescent molecules (terrylene, tetra-tert-butylterrylene). Application of the thermal-cycling method has made it possible to significantly extend the temperature range of investigation (from 4.5 K to the glass transition temperature). The changes observed in individual parameters of low-energy elementary excitations of the tunneling and vibrational types due to structural relaxation processes have been studied. It has been found that there is a spatial inhomogeneity in the distribution of the activation temperatures of local relaxation processes.

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  1. Molecular Spectroscopy Department, Institute for Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Fizicheskaya 5, Troitsk, Moscow, 142190, Russia

    I. Yu. Eremchev, Yu. G. Vainer & A. V. Naumov

  2. Moscow State Pedagogical University, ul. Malaya Pirogovskaya 1-1, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    A. V. Naumov

  3. Institute of Physics and Bayreuther Institut für Makromolekülforschung (BIMF), University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstrasse 30, D-95447, Bayreuth, Germany

    L. Kador

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Original Russian Text © I.Yu. Eremchev, Yu.G. Vainer, A.V. Naumov, L. Kador, 2013, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2013, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 652–660.

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Eremchev, I.Y., Vainer, Y.G., Naumov, A.V. et al. Observation of structural relaxations in disordered solid media via spectral histories of single impurity molecules. Phys. Solid State 55, 710–719 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783413040100

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