Solar cells and their applications / edited by Lewis Fraas, Larry Partain.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Solar cells: a brief history and introduction / Lewis Fraas and Larry Partain -- Solar cell electricity market history, public policy, projected future, and estimated costs / Larry Partain and Lewis Fraas -- Solar cells, single-crystal semiconductors, and high efficiency / Lewis Fraas -- Solar cell device physics / Larry Partain -- Crystalline silicon solar cells and modules / Leonid Rubin -- Thin-film solar cells and modules / Robert Birkmire -- Terrestrial module fabrication and assembly technologies / Christophet Bunner -- Chinese solar cell status / Wang Sicheng -- Tracking the sun for more kilowatt hour and lower-cost solar electricity / Ron Corio, Michael Reed, and Lewis Fraas -- Solar cell systems: definition, performance, and reliability / Jason Strauch, Larry Moore, and Elmer Collins -- Levelized cost of energy for utility-scale photovoltaics / Matthew Campbell -- Low-concentration crystalline silicon systems / Lewis Fraas -- High-concentration, III-V multijunction solar cells / Geoffrey Kinsey -- High-concentration fresnel lens assemblies and systems / Gerhad Perharz and Andreas Bett -- High-concentration cassegrainian solar cell modules and arrays / Michael Ludowise and Lewis Fraas -- Concentrator solar cell installations at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas / Suresh Sadineni and Robert Boehm -- Concentrator photovoltaic field installations / Francisca Rubio, María Martínez, and Pedro Banda -- Space solar cells and applications / Sheila Bailey and Ryne Raffaelle -- Solar resource for space and terrestrial applications / Christian A. Gueymard and Daryl Myers -- Solar energy costs: the solar advisor model / Paul Gilman, Nathan Blair, and Christopher Cameron -- Challenges of large-scale solar cell electricity production / David Faiman -- Market overview of flat panel detectors for x-ray imaging / Carl LaCasce, Larry Partain, and Chuck Blouir -- Amorphous Silicon transistors and photodiodes / Robert Street -- Amorphous silicon digital x-ray imaging / Richard Colbeth -- Photoconductor digital x-ray imaging / George Zentai -- Summary, conclusions, and recommendations / Lewis Fraas and Larry Partain.

Updated to reflect the advances since publication of the first edition, this edition draws upon basic physics and engineering principles coupled with key economic, market, business, investment, and policy factors to explain the status of solar cells and how their applications will expand over the next few decades.