In this Communication, it is shown that models used for describing generationand recombination of electrons and holes lead to disagreements with Maxwell'selectrodynamics. Self-consistent expressions, more adequately depicting theactual physical processes of electron-hole recombination in semiconductors areobtained. It is shown that the electron and hole lifetimes can be definedcorrectly only for the special cases when the electron and hole nonequilibriumconcentrations are the same, these lifetimes being equal. The influence oftemperature inhomogeneity on the recombination is also considered. Therecombination rate for hot electrons is obtained in the case when the electronand hole temperatures differ.
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