Simulação Monte Carlo no ensino de luminescência e cinética de decaimento de estados excitados Monte Carlo simulation on teaching of luminescence and excited states decay kinetics

Abstract

A software based in the Monte Carlo method have been developed aiming the teaching of important cases of mechanisms found in luminescence and in excited states decay kinetics, including: multiple decays, consecutive decays and coupled systems decays. The Monte Carlo Method allows the student to easily simulate and visualize the luminescence mechanisms, focusing on the probabilities of the related steps. The software CINESTEX was written for FreeBASIC compiler; it assumes first-order kinetics and any number of excited states, where the pathways are allowed with probabilities assigned by the user.

Keywords

• Monte Carlo simulation
• luminescence
• excited states decay kinetics