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Photocarrier lifetime and recombination losses in photovoltaic systems

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The photocarrier lifetime is commonly employed to describe the performance of photovoltaic and photodetecting devices fabricated from crystalline or non-crystalline materials. Numerous studies have obtained photocarrier lifetimes from transient decay signals in a multitude of non-crystalline systems, such as dye-sensitized solar cells, organic donor–acceptor blends, perovskites, nanoparticles, quantum dots and nanowires1,2,3.

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Figure 1: Charge-carrier interaction within Coulomb field during transport.

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  1. School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences and School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia

    Almantas Pivrikas

  2. School of Engineering and Information Technology, Murdoch University, Perth, 6150, Australia

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  3. College of Science, Technology and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, 4870, Australia

    Bronson Philippa

  4. College of Science, Technology and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, 4811, Australia

    Ronald D. White

  5. Department of Solid State Electronics, Vilnius University, Vilnius, 10222, Lithuania

    Gytis Juska

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Pivrikas, A., Philippa, B., White, R. et al. Photocarrier lifetime and recombination losses in photovoltaic systems. Nature Photon 10, 282–283 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.78

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