Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Bimolecular recombination in methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite is an inverse absorption process

  • Christopher L. Davies,
  • Marina R. Filip,
  • Jay B. Patel,
  • Timothy W. Crothers,
  • Carla Verdi,
  • Adam D. Wright,
  • Rebecca L. Milot,
  • Feliciano Giustino,
  • Michael B. Johnston,
  • Laura M. Herz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02670-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Radiative bimolecular processes will dominate charge-carrier recombination in hybrid perovskite solar cells operating near the Shockley-Queisser limit. Here, the authors show that such processes are the inverse of absorption and increase as distribution functions sharpen towards lower temperatures.