This document summarizes recent innovative techniques that have been developed for solar dryers. It discusses direct, indirect, mixed-mode, greenhouse, automatic, biomass, truncated pyramid, and tunnel solar dryers. Recent developments include integrating solar collectors with thermal energy storage, recirculating air, using convergent nozzles or fins to increase airflow and efficiency. Mathematical and computational fluid dynamics modeling techniques are also discussed that can be used to analyze and optimize solar dryer design and performance. Several studies evaluating different solar dryer designs and their ability to dry various agricultural products more quickly and efficiently than open-air drying are summarized.