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Table 3 Wavelength dependence of the SiNCs lifetimes and fitting parameters obtained from Eq. 5 and 9. The lifetimes changed by almost an order of magnitude across the emission spectrum. The β values were above 0.8 in most cases

From: Reappraising the Luminescence Lifetime Distributions in Silicon Nanocrystals

Small SiNCs						Large SiNCs
λ (nm)	I_PL	β _{Eq. 5}	〈τ_SE〉_{Eq. 5}	β _{Eq. 9}	〈τ_SE〉_{Eq. 9}	λ (nm)	I_PL	β _{Eq. 5}	〈τ_SE〉_{Eq. 5}	β _{Eq. 9}	〈τ_SE〉_{Eq. 9}
575	0.19	0.85	27.3	0.65	30.2	–	–	–	–	–	–
600	0.45	0.89	31.7	0.71	34.6	–	–	–	–	–	–
625	0.77	0.92	37.6	0.76	40.4	625	0.08	0.92	53.1	0.76	57.7
650	0.97	0.93	44.5	0.80	47.2	650	0.15	0.94	61.2	0.82	64.7
675	0.95	0.94	53.2	0.82	56.2	675	0.26	0.96	73.9	0.86	77.4
700	0.74	0.95	62.4	0.84	65.6	700	0.39	0.96	89.8	0.87	93.5
725	0.50	0.95	73.5	0.83	77.7	725	0.55	0.97	108.5	0.88	112.8
750	0.31	0.95	86.0	0.83	91.2	750	0.70	0.97	130.9	0.89	136.0
775	0.18	0.94	102.0	0.81	109.5	775	0.84	0.97	158.3	0.89	164.6
800	0.10	0.93	123.6	0.78	135.2	800	0.94	0.98	187.2	0.90	194.2
825	0.06	0.92	150.8	0.74	168.5	825	0.98	0.98	217.1	0.91	224.3
850	0.04	0.92	182.9	0.71	210.8	850	0.94	0.98	245.7	0.92	253.0
875	0.02	0.91	217.0	0.68	258.0	875	0.81	0.98	274.1	0.91	282.6
–	–	–	–	–	–	900	0.65	0.98	301.9	0.92	311.6
–	–	–	–	–	–	925	0.44	0.98	329.6	0.91	341.1
–	–	–	–	–	–	950	0.28	0.98	358.3	0.91	372.6
–	–	–	–	–	–	975	0.16	0.98	387.5	0.89	405.9
–	–	–	–	–	–	1000	0.09	0.97	414.6	0.88	437.9

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