About the Journal
A journal dedicated exclusively to the science, technology, and operation of solar cells.
What we publish
Solar Cell Insights is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal publishing experimental, theoretical and computational research across all solar cell technologies — silicon, perovskite, organic, dye-sensitised, CIGS and CdTe, III–V, quantum-dot, tandem and multijunction, and emerging photovoltaics. Within that field the journal is deliberately broad, covering device physics, charge generation and recombination, energetics and transport, interfaces and morphology, stability and degradation, and characterisation methodology.
Why the journal was founded
Photovoltaic research has a reporting problem. Efficiency records are published; the work that explains why a device underperformed usually is not. Experiments that were carefully designed, properly controlled and honestly analysed are abandoned at the point of writing because the result was not a record — and the field loses the information twice, first when the work is not published and again when another group repeats it.
Solar Cell Insights was founded to reduce that publication bias and make hidden experimental knowledge visible.
What makes us different
We do not treat higher efficiency as the only currency of publication. Efficiency is welcome, and so are charge transport, recombination, energetic disorder, interfaces, stability, degradation, defects, failure mechanisms, reproducibility, standardised characterisation and device physics. We accept scientifically sound negative, null and non-optimised results.
Papers are not rejected due to lower efficiency or negative trends. Proper controls and analysis are the key acceptance criteria.
How we work
Submit
The manuscript arrives through the submission wizard.
Editorial check
An editor checks scope, completeness and compliance.
Peer review
At least two independent reviewers assess the work.
Publication
Accepted work is copyedited and published open access.
Read the full Peer Review Policy →
Publisher and governance
Solar Cell Insights is published by SAMTrek UG (haftungsbeschränkt), a company registered in Germany. Editorial decisions are made by the journal's editors on scientific grounds alone and are independent of the publisher's commercial interests.
Journal facts
| Journal title | Solar Cell Insights |
| Subtitle | An Open Journal for Solar Cell Research |
| Publisher | SAMTrek UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Germany |
| Access model | Open access, no charge at launch |
| Peer review | Double-anonymous (pending final confirmation — see Peer Review Policy) |
| Article identifiers | DOI, assigned via Crossref |
| Publication frequency | Continuous publication into an annual volume (pending confirmation) |
| ISSN | Application pending |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 (pending final confirmation — see Open Access & Licensing) |
| Language | English |
Ready to submit?
Read the Aims & Scope and Author Guidelines first — the wizard takes about ten minutes.