dpscience / MELTail

A modified version of the historical MATLAB code MELT additionally enabling tail-fitting on lifetime spectra consisting of distributed characteristic lifetimes using Maximum Entropy for optimization

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MELTail // MELT v5

Copyright (c) 2021 Danny Petschke ([e-mail]). All rights reserved.

MELTail - A modified version of the historical MATLAB code MELT (Shukla (1993)) additionally enabling tail-fitting on lifetime spectra consisting of distributed characteristic lifetimes using Maximum Entropy for optimization.

Quickstart Guide

• edit the input file m_input.m:
• execute melt.m
  
• finished. You should see the results as shown above in the figures when running in the demo mode (use_simulation = 1).

How to cite this Program?

• Before citing this program MELTail you need at least to cite the initial publication of MELT (1993) and the publication which refers to latest version 4.0 (1997) both provided by Shukla at. al..

A. Shukla, M. Peter, L. Hoffmann, Analysis of positron lifetime spectra using quantified maximum entropy and a general linear filter, Nucl. Instruments Methods Phys. Res. Sect. A Accel. Spectrometers, Detect. Assoc. Equip. 335 (1993) 310–317. doi:10.1016/0168- 9002(93)90286-Q..

A. Shukla, L. Hoffmann, A.A. Manuel, M. Peter, Melt 4.0 a program for positron lifetime analysis, 255–257 (1997) 233–237. doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.255-257.233..

• Additionally, you should cite the applied version of this program in your study.
  

You can cite all released software versions by using the DOI 10.5281/zenodo.4657513. This DOI represents all versions, and will always resolve to the latest one.

v1.x

MELTail v1.0 (refers to MELT 5.0 based on MELT 4.0)