{"term":{"id":"14079","title":"rate of surface recombination","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - rate of surface recombination","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.14079","code":"14079","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Decay of carriers at the surface of a solid or interface between different phases, e.g., at the crystal surface.","notes":{"1":"Inverse of the lifetime of free carriers in the bulk of the particle. The greater \\(s\\) is, the smaller is the stationary concentration of photocarriers at the surface (and vice versa). SI unit is \\(\\pu{s-1}\\)."},"links":[{"term":"free carriers","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/14014"},{"term":"photocarriers","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/14040"},{"term":"surface recombination","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/14098"}],"sources":["PAC, 2011, 83, 931. 'Glossary of terms used in photocatalysis and radiation catalysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2011)' on page 985 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/PAC-REC-09-09-36)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/14079\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/14079\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/14079\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'rate of surface 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.14079","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":"2026-05-07T00:07:38+00:00"}}