Recent Advances in Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy

Introduction.- List of Contributors.- Dielectric Relaxation of Water in Complex Systems.- High-Frequency Dielectric Response of Hydrogen-Bonded Liquids between 0.2 and 2.5 THz.- Anomalous Diffusion, Cole-Cole Relaxation, and the Space in which they Occur: Puzzles and Problems.- Complex Dielectric Permittivity of Metal-Containing Nanocomposites: Non-Phenomenological Description.- State of Water In Confinement Near Hydrophilic Surfaces below the Freezing Temperature.- Dielectric Properties and Applications of CVD Diamonds in Millimeter and Terahertz Ranges.- Nonlinear Susceptibility Experiments in a Supercooled Liquid: Evidence of Growing Spatial Correlations to Tg.- On the Calculation of the Dielectric Properties of Liquid Ionic Systems.- Applications and Implications of Fractional Dynamics for Dielectric Relaxation.- Spectral Definition of the Characteristic Times for Anomalous Diffusion in a Potential.- High-Frequency Resonance Absorption as Evidence for Oscillation in a Well before Escape from a Metastable State in the Kramers Energy Controlled Diffusion Model.- Molecular Dynamics of Polymers at Nanometric Length Scales: From Thin Layers to Isolated Coils.- Fractional Klein-Kramers Equations: Subdiffusive and Superdiffusive Cases.- Index.-

Introduction.- List of Contributors.- Dielectric Relaxation of Water in Complex Systems; Y. Feldman et al.- High-Frequency Dielectric Response of Hydrogen-Bonded Liquids between 0.2 and 2.5 THz; Y. Yomogida et al.- Anomalous Diffusion, Cole-Cole Relaxation, and the Space in which they Occur: Puzzles and Problems; P. Ben Ishai et al.- Complex Dielectric Permittivity of Metal-Containing Nanocomposites: Non-Phenomenological Description; M.A. Kozhushner, L.I. Trakhtenberg.- State of Water In Confinement Near Hydrophilic Surfaces below the Freezing Temperature; A. Greenbaum et al.- Dielectric Properties and Applications of CVD Diamonds in Millimeter and Terahertz Ranges; B.M. Garin et al.- Nonlinear Susceptibility Experiments in a Supercooled Liquid: Evidence of Growing Spatial Correlations to Tg; C. Brun et al.- On the Calculation of the Dielectric Properties of Liquid Ionic Systems; M. Sega et al.- Applications and Implications of Fractional Dynamics for Dielectric Relaxation; R. Hilfer.- Spectral Definition of the Characteristic Times for Anomalous Diffusion in a Potential; Y.P. Kalmykov et al.- High-Frequency Resonance Absorption as Evidence for Oscillation in a Well before Escape from a Metastable State in the Kramers Energy Controlled Diffusion Model; W.T. Coffey et al.- Molecular Dynamics of Polymers at Nanometric Length Scales: From Thin Layers to Isolated Coils; F. Kremer et al.- Fractional Klein-Kramers Equations: Subdiffusive and Superdiffusive Cases; R. Metzler.- Index.-