{"term":{"id":"08864","title":"radiative charge carrier recombination","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - radiative charge carrier recombination","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.08864","code":"08864","status":"current","synonym":"<em>synonym<\/em>: radiative recombination","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Charge carrier recombination in which the energy released is emitted as a photon of corresponding energy.","notes":{"1":"Radiative charge carrier recombination occurs if a mobile electron meets a hole with which it forms an exciton that then decays by the radiative electron transition to the ground state."},"links":[{"term":"Charge carrier recombination","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/08781"},{"term":"hole","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/08826"},{"term":"stimulated radiative charge carrier recombination","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/08876"}],"sources":["PAC, 2022, 94, 15. 'Glossary of terms relating to electronic, photonic and magnetic properties of polymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)' on page 44 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2020-0501)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08864\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08864\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08864\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'radiative charge carrier recombination' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.08864","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-04-18T10:08:36+00:00"}}