Related to this post on Konarka’s bankruptcy: According to a range of news sites, 
including pv-tech.org, the german company Belectric has acquired Konarka Technologies. Find the press release here (pdf).
The system integrator Belectric is situated in Lower Franconia, less than 50km from Würzburg and less than 10km from where I live. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!
Although there is more to nongeminate recombination than just this mechanism, it is still instructive and also relevant to trap-assisted recombination mechanisms, due to its mobility-containing prefactor.
[Nenashev 2010] pointed out that in the derivation of the Langevin recombination,
since the electric field scales as r−2 and the surface area of the sphere scales as 2, the value of r chosen is unimportant, leading to a simple solution with constant electron den- sity, thus justifying the neglect of diffusion.
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Notes on Disordered Matter 