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 Partainches