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Dispersive diffusion controlled distance dependent recombination in amorphous semiconductors

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-11 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

The photoluminescence in amorphous semiconductors decays according to power law tdeltat^{-delta} at long times. The photoluminescence is controlled by dispersive transport of electrons. The latter is usually characterized by the power alphaalpha of the transient current observed in the time-of-flight experiments. Geminate recombination occurs by radiative tunneling which has a distance dependence. In this paper, we formulate ways to calculate reaction rates and survival probabilities in the case carriers execute dispersive diffusion with long-range reactivity. The method is applied to obtain tunneling recombination rates under dispersive diffusion. The theoretical condition of observing the relation delta=alpha/2+1delta = alpha/2 + 1 is obtained and theoretical recombination rates are compared to the kinetics of observed photoluminescence decay in the whole time range measured.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0511686,
  title  = {Dispersive diffusion controlled distance dependent recombination in amorphous semiconductors},
  author = {Kazuhiko Seki and Mariusz Wojcik and M. Tachiya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0511686},
  year   = {2009}
}

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To appear in Journal of Chemical Physics

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