SiliconPV Conference

Review Process

The SiliconPV conference papers will undergo scientific peer review and a formatting check. A paper is accepted for publication if it successfully passes the following stages:

  1. Plagiarism check
  2. Scientific review (first round)
  3. Scientific review (second round)
  4. Layout check

Review criteria for full papers

All papers will be subject to a detailed reviewing process. Review criteria include:


1. Significance, Relevance and Interest:

  • Significance: The overall importance or worth of the reported work, including implications for practices, policies or further research.
  • Relevance: Please make sure that your paper fits into the topic you chose. Papers with inappropriate contents or commercial advertisements will be rejected.
  • Interest: Interest to the conference participants: promise to have a significant impact for their work.

2. Originality:

  • The measure of the creativity or inventiveness of the author, including new concepts, techniques, and methods.

3. Scientific / Technical Quality of your Results, Organization, Completeness, Acknowledgement, Formalities, Clarity:

  • Scientific and Technical Quality: Explanation of results (already obtained, not planned!) using a sound scientific background; Stating errors and, as much as possible, statistical significance of the measured data; Usage of independently confirmed efficiencies (if possible).
  • Organization: The careful planning and logical structure of the manuscript, including a logical presentation and analysis of the results, findings, inferences and conclusions.
  • Completeness: The oneness or wholeness of the work. In this usage, the reported work should be marked by a unity and continuity of parts and show interdependence between these parts.
  • Acknowledgment: The adequate and accurate use of references to attribute the work of others.
  • Formalities: Clear presentation of tables, graphs, and illustrations; appropriate style and ease of reading; conformance with specifications for length and format details, proper layout (graphs, etc.).
  • Clarity: The correctness of English spelling and grammar, as well as the clear presentation of tables, graphs, and illustrations.

Best 20 Papers in SOLMAT

The best 20 SiliconPV papers will be published in a Special Issue: SiliconPV 2025 in Elsevier’s peer reviewed journal SOLMAT. The SOLMAT papers 2025 will be selected in the abstract reviewing process. Papers which are part of the special issue, will not be part of the conference proceedings in TIB. Authors submitting a paper for SOLMAT will receive further information by e-mail.

All these papers will be free accessible for a promotional period of three months once the special issue is completed (unless the author has chosen the Gold Open Access option).

Contact Person

Contact Person

Gayane Grigoryan

Junior Project Manager, Conexio-PSE GmbH