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Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 What Went Wrong with CPV?; 1.1 Why Is CPV Losing the Race?; 1.2 Status Update on PV; 1.2.1 PV Is Growing-Fast; 1.2.2 PV Is Cheap; 1.2.3 The More It Grows, the Cheaper It Gets; 1.3 Improving PV System Performance; References; 2 The Case for CPV; 2.1 Operating Principles and Limits of Solar Cells; 2.2 Solar Cells to Match the Solar Spectrum; 2.3 Why Do We Care About High Efficiency?; 2.3.1 Concentrator Physics: Fundamental Limits of CPV; 2.3.2 CPV Economics; References; 3 High-Efficiency Solar Cells; 3.1 Making High-Quality Multijunction Solar Cells.
3.1.1 Band Gap and Absorption3.1.2 Photoluminescence and Recombination; 3.1.3 Band Gap Tunabilty; 3.2 Multijunction Cells-Design and Manufacture; 3.2.1 Lattice-mismatched Epitaxial Growth; 3.2.2 Wafer Bonding; 3.2.3 Mechanical Stacking; 3.2.4 Laterally-array Cells with Spectrum Splitting; 3.3 Towards Ultrahigh Efficiencies: Feasibility of Many-Junction Systems; 3.4 How Many Junctions Do We Need?; 3.5 Multijunction Cell Materials: The Big Picture; 3.5.1 Cheaper III-V Cells; 3.5.2 Beyond III-V-Other Materials for Low-Cost Multijunction; References; 4 New Approaches to CPV Optics.
4.1 Solar Concentration: Practical Optics and Physical Limits4.2 Constraints of Small Acceptance Angles; 4.3 Relaxing Optical Requirements with New Design Approaches; 4.4 Light Splitting: Getting More Out of the Resource; 4.5 Angle Restriction and Concentration-an Emerging Concept; References; 5 Tracking Integration for Rooftop CPV; 5.1 Light Collection by Tilted Panels; 5.2 The Sun's "Motion"; 5.3 Sun Tracking on a Single Axis; 5.4 Physical Considerations of Sun Tracking 2: Tracking Errors; 5.5 Sun Tracking Economics; 5.6 Concentrators for the Rooftop.
5.6.1 Optical Principles of Tracking Integrated Solar Concentrators5.6.1.1 Design 1: Integrated Rotating Troughs; 5.6.1.2 Planar Microtracking; 5.6.1.3 More Advanced Concepts; References; 6 What Comes Next for CPV?; 6.1 The New CPV; Reference.
3.1.1 Band Gap and Absorption3.1.2 Photoluminescence and Recombination; 3.1.3 Band Gap Tunabilty; 3.2 Multijunction Cells-Design and Manufacture; 3.2.1 Lattice-mismatched Epitaxial Growth; 3.2.2 Wafer Bonding; 3.2.3 Mechanical Stacking; 3.2.4 Laterally-array Cells with Spectrum Splitting; 3.3 Towards Ultrahigh Efficiencies: Feasibility of Many-Junction Systems; 3.4 How Many Junctions Do We Need?; 3.5 Multijunction Cell Materials: The Big Picture; 3.5.1 Cheaper III-V Cells; 3.5.2 Beyond III-V-Other Materials for Low-Cost Multijunction; References; 4 New Approaches to CPV Optics.
4.1 Solar Concentration: Practical Optics and Physical Limits4.2 Constraints of Small Acceptance Angles; 4.3 Relaxing Optical Requirements with New Design Approaches; 4.4 Light Splitting: Getting More Out of the Resource; 4.5 Angle Restriction and Concentration-an Emerging Concept; References; 5 Tracking Integration for Rooftop CPV; 5.1 Light Collection by Tilted Panels; 5.2 The Sun's "Motion"; 5.3 Sun Tracking on a Single Axis; 5.4 Physical Considerations of Sun Tracking 2: Tracking Errors; 5.5 Sun Tracking Economics; 5.6 Concentrators for the Rooftop.
5.6.1 Optical Principles of Tracking Integrated Solar Concentrators5.6.1.1 Design 1: Integrated Rotating Troughs; 5.6.1.2 Planar Microtracking; 5.6.1.3 More Advanced Concepts; References; 6 What Comes Next for CPV?; 6.1 The New CPV; Reference.