Table of Contents

Foreword. Preface. The requirements of high efficiency solar cells (A Luque). Limits to concentration by passive optical systems (W T Welford). Optical confinement in photovoltaics (J C Minano). Thermodynamic limits to photovoltaic energy conversion (J E Parrott). Limits to efficiency of single and multiple bandgap solar cells (G L Araujo). Limitations of the open-circuit voltage by recombination (P T Landsberg). Surface recombination in high efficiency silicon solar cells (R P Mertens, M Ghannam).