About Solar

Aims

Solar (ISSN 2673-9941) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal of scientific research on solar thermal energy and photovoltaic system, which publishes articles, reviews, and communications as well as Special Issues on particular subjects.

We also encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. Therefore, there is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers. Full experimental details should be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Additionally, electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculation and experimental procedure as well as source codes can be submitted as supplementary material.

Scope

The main subject areas include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Photovoltaics (PV)
  • Materials for PV conversion
  • Solar cells, modules, and systems
  • Novel measurement, test, and characterization methods and systems
  • Processes and tools for industrialization
  • High efficiency cells and multijunctions
  • Concentrating PV and space applications
  • PV heating, cooling, and storage systems
  • Power electronics for PV
  • Large-area PV power plants
  • Grid integration
  • Stand-alone systems
• Solar Thermal Systems
  • Materials for solar thermal conversion
  • Flat panel collectors
  • Heating, cooling, and storage systems
  • Concentrating systems
  • Solar and hybrid power plants
• Energy Storage for Solar Systems
  • Battery systems and their control
  • Seasonal storage for heating, cooling, and electricity
  • Arising and future technologies for energy storage
• Solar Education
  • Best practice examples (from elementary schools via vocational training to universities)
  • New methods and ideas for solar training
  • Solar education in the Global South
• Other Topics Related to Solar Energy
  • Economy of solar conversion systems
  • Modeling, yield measurements, forecast, and predictions
  • Environmental issues, recycling, lifetime analysis, and degradation
  • Energy policy
  • Radiation measurements and predictions
  • Photochemical conversion

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Solar will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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