Doping-enhanced dipolar dynamics in ice V as a precursor of hydrogen ordering in ice XIII

Abstract

Dielectric spectroscopy measurements are carried out in the temperature range from about 100 to 145 K on nominally pure ice V as well as on crystals doped with KOH and with HCl in order to investigate their reorientation dynamics at ambient pressure. The orientational glass transition temperature of pure ice V is detected at 123 K, in agreement with previous indications from calorimetry. KOH doped ice V displays an about 60-fold enhanced hydrogen dynamics and the dipolar relaxation induced by HCl doping is even by a factor of about 40 000 faster than that of the undoped material. The phase transition of HCl doped ice V to ice XIII is accompanied by a significant reorientational slowdown and a pronounced freeze-out of the electrical susceptibility. The results obtained near this transition are discussed in relation to other order/disorder ice pairs such as ice I/XI and ice XII/XIV.