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Dynamic Screening Effects on Auger Recombination in Metal-Halide Perovskites

Materials Science 2025-12-11 v2

Abstract

The performance of modern light-emitting technologies, from lasers to LEDs, is limited by nonradiative losses, with Auger recombination being the dominant channel at device-relevant carrier densities. Reliable modeling of this process is essential, yet conventional treatments neglect dynamic dielectric effects, limiting the predictive reliability at operating conditions. We develop a general framework that incorporates the frequency-dependent screened Coulomb interaction W00(q,ω)W_{00}(\mathbf{q},\omega), computed from low-scaling \textit{GW}, into both direct and phonon-assisted Auger amplitudes. Demonstrated on orthorhombic γ\gamma-CsPbI3_3 (band gap Eg1.73E_g\approx1.73 eV) and γ\gamma-CsSnI3_3 (Eg1.30E_g\approx1.30 eV), the approach shows that dynamic screening enhances the dielectric response, lowering the room-temperature Auger coefficient by \sim50-60 %. This renormalization shifts the crossover between radiative and nonradiative recombination by nearly a factor of two in carrier density. Dynamic dielectric screening thus emerges as a quantitative determinant of Auger recombination, offering a transferable framework for predictive modeling across polar semiconductors where frequency-independent screening models are inadequate.

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@article{arxiv.2512.07581,
  title  = {Dynamic Screening Effects on Auger Recombination in Metal-Halide Perovskites},
  author = {Utkarsh Singh and Sergei I. Simak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.07581},
  year   = {2025}
}

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14 pages, 5 figures