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Table 2 Fitting parameters, mean lifetimes, and mean decay times obtained for Eqs. 5, 9, and 16 for the small and large SiNC samples. For the lognormal function (Eq. 16), the last column shows the mode (i.e., the most common lifetime). All lifetimes are in microseconds

From: Reappraising the Luminescence Lifetime Distributions in Silicon Nanocrystals

Sample	Equation 5				Equation 9				Equation 16				HK method
	τ _SE	β	〈t〉	〈τ_SE〉	τ _SE	β	〈t〉	〈τ_SE〉	μ	σ	〈τ_LN〉	〈τ_{mode, LN}〉	t _d
Small SiNCs	60.9	0.92	69.4	63.4	38.9	0.72	89.7	73.3	10.1	0.73	31.4	70.4	62.8
Large SiNCs	195	0.94	212	200	146	0.79	253	220	8.8	0.61	124	217	194.8

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