Within semiconductor nanocrystals, which effect limits electron-hole recombination efficiency?

💡 Explanation

Recombination efficiency is reduced because dangling bonds create surface trap states that capture carriers via the process of surface passivation; therefore, surface trap state concentration limits electron-hole recombination, rather than phonon modes or diffusion because the unpassivated nanocrystal surface dominates behavior.

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