Introduction to photovoltaic physics, applications, and technologies / Loucas Tsakalakos -- Optical properties of nanostructures / Kylie Catchpole -- Photovoltaic device physics on the nanoscale / D. König -- Nanostructured organic solar cells / James T. McLeskey Jr. and Qiquan Qiao --Recent progress in quantum well solar cells / Keith W.J. Barnham ... [and others] -- Nanowire- and nanotubes-based solar cells / Loucas Tsakalakos -- Semiconductor nanowires: contacts and electronic properties / Emanuel Tutuc and En-Shao Liu -- Quantum dot solar cells / Seth M. Hubbard, Ryne Raffaelle, and Sheila Bailey -- Luminescent solar concentrators / Amanda J. Chatten ... [and others] -- Nanoparticles for solar spectrum conversion / W.G.J.H.M. van Sark, A. Meijerink, and R.E.I. Schropp -- Nanoplasmonics for photovoltaic applications / E.T. Yu -- Epilogue: future manufacturing methods for nanostructured photovoltaic devices / Loucas Tsakalakos and Bas A. Korevaar