Relaxation studies on V₂O₅-TeO₂ glasses using heterogeneous conductor model

The dielectric modulus spectra of glasses in the system V₂O₅-TeO₂ have been studied as a function of frequency in the temperature range 230 to 330K. A heterogeneous conductor model developed recently with the assumption of a sinusoidally varying local conductivity in the conducting phase has been successfully applied to analyse the data in this glass system. The Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts (KWW) stretched exponential function has also been used to fit the measured modulus spectra. The exponent β is found to be correlated to the conductivity fluctuation in the conducting phase as assumed in the heterogeneous model.