Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells is intended as a vehicle for the dissemination of research results on materials science and technology related to photovoltaic, photothermal and photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion. Materials science is taken in the broadest possible sense and encompasses physics, chemistry, optics, materials fabrication and analysis for all types of materials.
Of particular interest are:
Solar Cells, covering single crystal, polycrystalline and amorphous materials utilising homojunctions and heterojunctions, Schottky barriers, liquid junctions and their applications. Also of interest is analysis of component materials, individual cells and complete systems, including their economic aspects.
Photothermal Devices, in the broadest sense, including solar absorber devices, heat storage materials, radiative cooling systems and their applications.
Photoelectrochemical and Photochemical Devices, covering photoelectrodes, photocatalysis, photoconversion and solar desalination systems and their applications.
Optical Properties of materials, including light trapping, texturising, solar concentrators which include imaging and non-imaging optical collectors.
Light Control, including systems for energy efficient architecture and daylighting, chromogenics and smart windows.
The pertinent issues are comprehensive and encompass bulk materials, coatings and thin films and surface treatments, from basic as well as from applications-oriented and manufacturing related perspectives.
Manuscripts of general interest not being suitable for Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells can be submitted to Refocus, which publishes magazine-style feature articles concerning all aspects of renewable energy. Please e-mail David Hopwood, Editor for further details (d.hopwood@elsevier.com) and visit http://www.re-focus.net.
Technical articles not specifically related to the materials aspects of Solar Energy conversion can be submitted to Solar Energy, the official journal of the International Solar Energy Society. For details, visithttps://www.elsevier.com/locate/se-online.
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief – Crystalline Silicon and Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells
- Ivan Gordon
Interuniversity Micro-Electronic Centre, Leuven, Belgium
Editor – CSP/Thermal Storage
- Zhengguo Zhang
South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Editor – Space Photovoltaics and Emerging PV Concepts
- Ignacio Rey-Stolle
Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Editor – III-V Multi-junction Solar Cells, CPV and Economics of Solar Materials
- Simon Philipps
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany
Editor - Non-Silicon Thin Film Solar Cell
- Xavier Mathew
Institute for Renewable Energy, Temixco, Morelos, Mexico
Editor - Optical and Electrical Properties
- Aline Rougier
Institute for Condensed Matter Chemistry Bordeaux, Pessac, France
Editor - Organic and Polymer Solar Cell
- Frederik Krebs PhD
Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark
Editor - Thin Film Deposition, Oxide Materials & Device
- Aryasomayajula Subrahmanyam
Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Emeritus Editor
- Carl Lampert
Star Science, Cotati, California, United States - Greg P. Smestad
Sol Ideas Technology Development
Editorial Board
- Anoop Agrawal
AJJER LLC, Tucson, Arizona, United States - Markus Beck PhD
Siva Power, San Jose, California, United States - Andreas Bett
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany - Robert Birkmire
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States - Andrew Blakers
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia - Dave Carlson
BP America Inc, Houston, Texas, United States - Gavin Conibeer
University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Ahmed Ennaoui
Research Institute for Solar Energy and New Energies, Rabat, Morocco - Ana Inés Fernández
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain - Kostadinka Gesheva
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria - Sophia Haussener
Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland - Michael Hutchins
Sonnergy Ltd, Oxford, United Kingdom - Geoffrey Kinsey
Fraunhofer USA Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE, Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Sarah Kurtz
University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States - Antonio Luque
Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Tom Markvart
University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom - Santo Martinuzzi
Aix-Marseille Universite, Marseille, France - Nilgun Ozer
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States - Terry Peterson PhD
Solar Power Consulting, San Carlos, California, United States - Ajeet Rohatgi
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States - Harry Ruda
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Bart Vermang
Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium and Imec, Leuven, Belgium - Baojie Yan
Rochester Hills, Michigan, 48309, United States