On conversion of luminescence into absorption and the van Roosbroeck-Shockley relation

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Bhattacharya, Rupak [1 ]
Pal, Bipul [1 ]
Bansal, Bhavtosh [1 ]
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[1] Indian Inst Sci Educ & Res Kolkata, Nadia 741252, W Bengal, India
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10.1063/1.4721495
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The problem of conversion of experimentally measured luminescence spectrum into the absorption cross section is revisited. The common practice of using the van Roosbroeck-Shockley (or Kubo-Martin-Schwinger or Kennard-Stepanov) relation in this context is incorrect because luminescence from semiconductors is essentially all due to the spontaneous emission component of the recombination of carriers distributed far-from-equilibrium. A simple, physically consistent, and practical prescription for converting the luminescence spectra into absorption is presented and its relation to the so-called nonequilibrium generalization of the van Roosbroeck-Shockley relationship is discussed. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4721495]
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