LumTHools - Software for fitting the temperature dependence of luminescence emission intensity, lifetime, bandshift, and bandwidth and luminescence thermometry and review of the theoretical models

Luminescence with temperature changes in its intensity, energy, spectral shape, peak width in the steady-state, or lifetime and phase shift in the impulse regime. Those most often undesired effects (but endorsed for the luminescence thermometry) have been modeled depending on the material type and physical phenomena involved, resulting in numerous equations and explanations. However, there is not a single publication that collected all of the theories and guided the reader to their proper application. Here we devised a review of all prominent theoretical models, for all types of materials and all temperature-induced phenomena on luminescence, extended the original research, and provided the advanced, yet user-friendly, multiplatform, software for fitting the experimental data. The software can be obtained from https://www.omasgroup.org/lumthools/for free. As it is interactive, it is also capable of demonstrating the effect of each fitting parameter on the change of the fitting curve, it calculates and graphs the figures of merit in luminescence thermometry, and exports the data in a format ready for publication