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An Introduction to Processing, Fitting, and Interpreting Transient Absorption Data
Published on: February 16, 2024
Complex temporal decay: a complete analysis
R Quintero-Torres1, H A Castillo-Matadamas, Jeff F Young
1Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada, UNAM campus Juriquilla, Boulevard Juriquilla 3001, Juriquilla Querétaro, 76230, México.
Abstract:
Relaxation dynamics is universal in science and engineering; its study serves to parameterize a system's response and to help identify a microscopic model of the processes involved. When measured data for a phenomenon cannot be fitted using one exponential, the choice of an alternative function to describe the decay becomes nontrivial. Here, we contrast two different, but fundamentally related approaches to fitting nontrivial decay curves; exponential decomposition and the gamma probability density function.
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