SOLAR CELL

any device that directly converts the energy in light into electrical energy through the process of photovoltaics. Additional reading Stanley W. Angrist, Direct Energy Conversion, 4th ed. (1987), provides a historical introduction and overview.Paul D. Maycock and Edward N. Stirewalt, Photovoltaics: Sunlight to Electricity in One Step (1981), is a nontechnical work. Richard J. Komp, Practical Photovoltaics: Electricity from Solar Cells, 2nd ed. (1984); and Kenneth Zweibel and Paul Hersch, Basic Photovoltaic Principles and Methods (1984), are more advanced but still accessible to the nontechnically trained reader. Stephen J. Fonash, Solar Cell Device Physics (1981), is for the specialist. Stephen Joseph Fonash Raymond T. Fonash