Photoluminescence decay of silicon nanocrystals and L\'evy stable distributions
Abstract
Recent experiments have shown that photoluminescence decay of silicon nanocrystals can be described by the stretched exponential function. We show here that the associated decay probability rate is the one-sided Levy stable distribution which describes well the experimental data. The relevance of these conclusions to the underlying stochastic processes is discussed in terms of Levy processes.
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