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Contents<br />
5 Terrestrial Photovoltaic Industry: The Beginning 203<br />
Peter F. Varadi<br />
6 Bringing the Oil Industry into the Picture 219<br />
Karl Wolfgang Böer<br />
7 The Story of SunPower 227<br />
Richard M. Swanson<br />
7.1 Introduction 227<br />
7.2 The Beginnings of Terrestrial PV 228<br />
7.3 My Early Years 229<br />
7.4 Formation of SunPower 235<br />
7.5 Concentrators 237<br />
7.6 Race Cars 239<br />
7.7 Optical Detectors 241<br />
7.8 The PV Business Takes Off 242<br />
7.9 Airplanes 243<br />
7.10 Project Mercury 244<br />
7.11 A New Plan 245<br />
7.12 Cypress 246<br />
7.13 Goodbye Concentrators 247<br />
7.14 Becoming a Manufacturer 248<br />
7.15 Polarization 250<br />
7.16 IPO 251<br />
7.17 PowerLight 252<br />
7.18 Epilog 253<br />
8 History of Technologies, Development for Solar Silicon Cost<br />
Reduction 257<br />
Frederick Schmid<br />
8.1 Introduction 257<br />
8.2 Development of HEM and FAST for Reducing the<br />
Cost of Silicon Wafers 262<br />
8.3 FAST Development 265<br />
8.4 Development of Technology for Reducing Silicon<br />
Meltstock 270<br />
8.5 Summary 272
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