Sunlight is the source of energy for most of the processes on the Earth‘s surface and it represents also the ulitmate renewable energy source for human civilisation. The invention of photovoltaic solar cells and their development to the present highly sophisticated forms represent a story worth telling. The history of photovoltaics contains surprising and dramatic moments as well as steady progress, on a par with the rise of microelectronics. Further, there may still be some surprising new paths, similar to the recent development of hybrid perovskite solar cells., Antonín Fejfar, Martin Ledinský., and Obsahuje seznam literatury