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Hopping losses in polarisable dielectric media

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The loss in most dielectric materials shows a component that is ‘flat’ in frequency over several decades and does not depend strongly on temperature. The usual interpretation as the sum of many Debye-like loss peaks is criticised and a new model is proposed in which charge carriers hop between localised sites in a polarisable medium.

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Jonscher, A. Hopping losses in polarisable dielectric media. Nature 250, 191–193 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/250191a0

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