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Table 1 Formulas for stretched exponential population and luminescence decays. The approximate solution H(λ) is shown in ref. [9]

From: Reappraising the Luminescence Lifetime Distributions in Silicon Nanocrystals

Population decay ct/c0

Intensity decay g(t)

Mean time constant

Mean decay time

Rate distribution

exp[−(λSEt)β]

\( {\beta \lambda}_{SE}^{\beta }{t}^{\beta -1}\exp \left[-{\left({\lambda}_{SE}t\right)}^{\beta}\right] \)

\( \frac{\tau_{SE}}{\beta}\Gamma \left[\frac{1}{\beta}\right] \)

\( {\tau}_{SE}\frac{\Gamma \left(2/\beta \right)}{\Gamma \left(1/\beta \right)} \)

H(λ)

\( \frac{1}{\Gamma \left(1/\beta \right)}\Gamma \left[1/\beta, {\left({\lambda}_{SE}t\right)}^{\beta}\right] \)

\( \frac{\lambda_{SE}\beta }{\Gamma \left(1/\beta \right)}\exp \left[-{\left({\lambda}_{SE}t\right)}^{\beta}\right] \)

\( {\tau}_{SE}\frac{\Gamma \left(2/\beta \right)}{\Gamma \left(1/\beta \right)} \)

\( {\tau}_{SE}\frac{\Gamma \left(3/\beta \right)}{2\Gamma \left(2/\beta \right)} \)

H(λ)/λ

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