Microwave and millimetre-wave dielectric response of Rb1-x(ND₄)D₂PO₄dipolar glass

The microwave and millimetre-wave dielectric response of Rb 0.5 (ND 4 ) 0.5 D 2 PO 4 dipolar glass has been studied around the frustration temperature T f ≈120 K. It was found that above the frustration temperature T f the soft relaxational deuteron mode is responsible for the whole dielectric dynamics below the phonon range. Its frequency decreases from that of submillimetre waves to that of microwaves following the classical law ν R = A ( T - T f ), with A = 0.75 GHz K -1 , but in the vicinity of T f the soft mode gradually shifts towards the glass-like dispersion predominantly related to the diffusion of Takagi defects according to the Vogel-Fulcher law. From the experimental results, the distribution of the relaxation times and of the local polarization at various temperatures is calculated. It is shown that the local polarization distribution function obtained from the dielectric response ε*(ν, T ) coincides well with that obtained from the NMR results.