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Slow Relaxation of Organic Low Temperature Glasses

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The technique of persistent spectral hole burning provides a sensitive tool for examining slow relaxation processes in amorphous solids. Photochemical holes relax on a logarithmic timescale. Temperature cycle experiments lead to irreversible hole filling and broadening. This behaviour can be understood within the frame of two level systems. The dispersion of relaxation rates and the distribution of barrier heights can be determined.

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  1. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bayreuth, Postfach 101251, D-8580, Bayreuth, Germany

    Werner Köhler & Josef Friedrich

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  1. LANSCE MS-H805, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, 87545, New Mexico, USA

    Roger Pynn (director) (director)

  2. Institute for Energy Technology, POB 40, N-2007, Kjeller, Norway

    Tormod Riste (co-director) (co-director)

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Köhler, W., Friedrich, J. (1987). Slow Relaxation of Organic Low Temperature Glasses. In: Pynn, R., Riste, T. (eds) Time-Dependent Effects in Disordered Materials. NATO ASI Series, vol 167. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7476-3_32

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