History of the Kohlrausch (stretched exponential) function: Pioneering work in luminescence
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: The first use of the stretched exponential function to describe the time evolution of a non-equilibrium quantity is usually credited to Rudolph Kohlrausch (1809-1858), who in 1854 applied it to the discharge of a capacitor. Attention is drawn to a set of pioneering works on the Kohlrausch function, one of which published 101 years ago, and that are not mentioned by Cardona, Chamberlin, and Marx in Ann. Phys. (Leipzig) 16, 842 (2007).
Source: Annalen der Physik
Authors: M. Berberan-Santos, E.N. Bodunov, B. Valeur
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1764897779