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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Electrical Engineering

Background:

  • Immittance spectroscopy (IS) is crucial for characterizing materials.
  • Data-fitting models in IS can suffer from inherent ambiguities.
  • Maxwell's equations explain the fundamental ambiguity between conduction and displacement currents.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Identify and illustrate ambiguities in immittance spectroscopy model data-fitting.
  • Analyze fitting ambiguities in advanced models like Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) and PNPA.
  • Discuss the implications of these ambiguities for material system analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Complex-nonlinear-least-squares (CNLS) fitting of experimental and synthetic frequency response data.
  • Application of Davidson-Cole, ordinary, and anomalous diffusion PNP/PNPA models.
  • Analysis of fitting parameters including dielectric constant, relaxation time, fractional exponent, mobilities, and generation-recombination parameters.

Main Results:

  • Standard models like Davidson-Cole present no additional ambiguities beyond the intrinsic current indistinguishability.
  • Advanced PNP/PNPA models introduce significant new ambiguities due to multiple free parameters.
  • These ambiguities relate to charge carrier mobilities and generation-recombination processes.

Conclusions:

  • Advanced IS models require careful parameter selection to avoid ambiguous results.
  • Material-specific information is often necessary to resolve fitting ambiguities.
  • Understanding PNP/PNPA model parameter interdependencies is key for accurate material characterization.