Editor-in-Chief: Sean Shaheen, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
The Journal of Photonics for Energy (JPE) covers fundamental and applied research areas focused on the applications of photonics for renewable energy harvesting, conversion, storage, distribution, monitoring, consumption, and efficient usage.
On the cover: LBIC mapping in solar cells, from the article "Luminescent coupling effect in InGaP/GaAs/InGaAs inverted metamorphic triple-junction solar cell," by Vaishnavi Thakur, Bernice Mae Yu Jeco-Espaldon, and Yoshitaka Okada in Volume 14 Issue 1.
Regular papers: Submissions of regular papers are always welcome.
Special section papers: Open calls for papers are listed below. A cover letter indicating that the submission is intended for a particular special section should be included with the paper.
To submit a paper, please prepare the manuscript according to the journal guidelines and use the online submission system
. All papers will be peer‐reviewed in accordance with the journal's established policies and procedures. Authors have the choice to publish with open access.
Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg (Germany)
Email: matthew.berwind@ise.fraunhofer.de
Mälardalen University, Västerås (Sweden)
Email: pietro.campana@mdu.se
Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena (Germany)
Email: harald.hoppe@uni-jena.de
University of Calgary (Canada)
Email: gregory.welch@ucalgary.ca
The initial concept for combining agriculture and photovoltaics instead of their competition for soil, was conceived by the founder of the Fraunhofer ISE, Prof. Dr. Adolf Götzberger, and his colleague, Dr. Armin Zastrow, as early as 1981. This might be considered the birth of agrivoltaic systems, whereas the tailored photovoltaics for this purpose may be called agrivoltaic devices. While so far today's photovoltaic infrastructure has followed the economics of scale resulting in huge and monotonic power plants, only more recently, interest in agrivoltaics has been steadily increasing with more and more projects getting realized around the world.
Reasons for the rising interest in such smart combinations between crop growth and electricity generation are due to an increasing competition about land use for either energy or food production in many regions of the world. Even though ground-mounted utility-scale PV systems show a much (up to 100x) higher efficiency in the annual energy yield than the production of so-called biofuels, they still do compete with local food production. Thus, increased combined yield of crop and electricity production, as compared to either single option (e.g., on neighboring fields), is highly attractive. In comparison to agriculture alone, agrivoltaics can lower stress arising from intense sunshine, intense rain or hail, and high evapotranspiration rates. Details of agrivoltaic systems may also depend on transparency in terms of spectrum or opaqueness, free standing or greenhouse installations, and many more factors to be researched.
At the verge towards mass adoption of agrivoltaics, this special section of Journal of Photonics for Energy (JPE) seeks to highlight not only materials research and device engineering but also application developments in agrivoltaic systems. We welcome articles reporting new research in the field, as well as perspectives and review articles. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
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All submissions will be peer reviewed. Peer review will commence immediately upon manuscript submission, with a goal of making a first decision within six weeks of manuscript receipt. Submissions should follow the author guidelines for JPE. Manuscripts should be submitted online at https://jpe.msubmit.net. A cover letter indicating that the submission is intended for this special section should be included.
Thermophotovoltaic Systems (in progress, 2024)
Guest Editors: Georgia T. Papadakis, Peter Bermel, Esther López Estrada, Brendan Kayes, and Eric Tervo
Novel Photovoltaic Device Architectures (2022)
Guest Editors: Fatima Toor and Ian Sellers
Radiative Cooling (2021-22)
Guest Editors: Aaswath Raman, Xiaobo Yin, and Peter Bermel
Women in Renewable Energy (October-December 2020)
Guest Editors: Zakya H. Kafafi and Mónica Lira-Cantu
Advanced Materials and Devices for Solar Driven Liquid Fuel and Hydrogen Production (April-June 2020)
Guest Editors: Liejin Guo, Clemens Burda, and Maochang Liu
Solar Energy Solutions for Electricity and Water Supply in Rural Areas (October-December 2019)
Guest Editors: Kerstin Wydra, Fatima Toor, Martina Jaskolski, and Nikolaos Tzoupanos
Thermal Photonics in Energy (July-September 2019)
Guest Editors: Sheng Shen, Andrej Lenert, and Yi Zheng
Festschrift of the 70th Birthday of Zeev "Valy" Vardeny (July-September 2018)
Guest Editor: Paul A. Lane
Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (July-September 2018)
Guest Editors: Chihaya Adachi and Eli Zysman-Colman
Spectral Management for Renewable Energy Conversion (April-June 2018)
Guest Editors: Timothy W. Schmidt, Felix N. Castellano, Rowan W. MacQueen, and Murad J. Y. Tayebjee
Perovskite-Based Solar Cells (series spans multiple issues)
Guest Editors: Ana Flavia Nogueira and Laura Schelhas
Tandem Junction Solar Cells (series spans multiple issues)
Guest Editors: Fatima Toor, Arthur Onno, and Karin Hinzer
Solar Fuels Photocatalysis (January-March 2017)
Guest Editors: Jeremy Pietron and Roland Marschall
Hot Carrier Energy Harvesting and Conversion (October-December 2016)
Guest Editors: Jeremy Munday and Qiaoqiang Gan
Solid-State Lighting: Photonics and Technologies (2015)
Guest Editors: Nelson Tansu and Franky So
Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Solar Cells (2015)
Guest Editors: Ana Flavia Nogueira and Garry Rumbles
Nanophotonics and Plasmonics for Solar Energy Harvesting and Conversion (2015)
Guest Editor: Deirdre O'Carroll
Solution-Processable Organic Solar Cells (2015)
Guest Editors: Christoph J. Brabec and Tayebeh Ameri
Organic Photovoltaics (2012)
Guest Editors: Christoph Brabec, Paul Lane, and Zakya H. Kafafi
Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices (2012)
Guest Editors: Franky So and Chihaya Adachi
High and Low Concentrator Systems for Solar Electric Applications (2012)
Guest Editor: Kaitlyn VanSant
Reliability of Photovoltaic Cells, Modules, Components, and Systems (2012)
Guest Editors: Neelkanth G. Dhere, John H. Wohlgemuth, and Kevin Lynn
Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices (2011)
Guest Editors: Franky So and Chihaya Adachi
Organic Photovoltaics (2011)
Guest Editors: Christoph Brabec, Paul Lane, and Zakya H. Kafafi
