part Section 1: General Overviews -- chapter 1 The Story of Solar Cells -- chapter 2 Inorganic Photovoltaic Materials and Devices: Past, Present, and Future -- chapter 3 Natural Organic Photosynthetic Solar Energy Transduction -- chapter 4 Solid-State Organic Photovoltaics: A Review of Molecular and Polymeric Devices -- part Section 2: Mechanisms and Modeling -- chapter 5 Simulations of Optical Processes in Organic Photovoltaic Devices -- chapter 6 Coulomb Forces in Excitonic Solar Cells -- chapter 7 Electronic Structure of Organic Photovoltaic Materials: Modeling of Exciton-Dissociation and Charge-Recombination Processes -- chapter 8 Optimization of Organic Solar Cells in Both Space and Energy�Time Domains -- part Section 3: Materials and Devices -- chapter 9 Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells -- chapter 10 Organic Solar Cells Incorporating ap�i�n Junction and ap�n Homojunction -- chapter 11 Liquid-Crystal Approaches to Organic Photovoltaics -- chapter 12 Photovoltaic Cells Based on Nanoporous Titania Films Filled with Conjugated Polymers -- chapter 13 Solar Cells Based on Cyanine and Polymethine Dyes -- chapter 14 Semiconductor Quantum Dot Based Nanocomposite Solar Cells -- chapter 15 Solar Cells Based on Composites of Donor Conjugated Polymers and Carbon Nanotubes -- chapter 16 Photovoltaic Devices Based on Polythiophene/C60 -- chapter 17 Alternating Fluorene Copolymer�Fullerene Blend Solar Cells -- chapter 18 Solar Cells Based on Diblock Copolymers: A PPV Donor Block and a Fullerene Derivatized Acceptor Block -- chapter 19 Interface Electronic Structure and Organic Photovoltaic Devices -- chapter 20 The Influence of the Electrode Choice on the Performance of Organic Solar Cells -- chapter 21 Conducting and Transparent Polymer Electrodes -- chapter 22 Progress in Optically Transparent Conducting Polymers -- chapter 23 Optoelectronic Properties of Conjugated Polymer/Fullerene Binary Pairs with Variety of LUMO Level Differences -- chapter 24 Polymer�Fullerene Concentration Gradient Photovoltaic Devices by Thermally Controlled Interdiffusion -- chapter 25 Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes for Organic Photovoltaic Devices.