What is the solar cells Reporting Summary?

Originally, the Solar Cells Reporting Summary was intended for editors and peer reviewers to ensure that manuscripts meet the assessment and reporting standards expected by the community. However, a few years later, we started publishing the document alongside the paper.

Are experimental details included in the solar cells Reporting Summary?

To improve the usefulness of the Solar Cells Reporting Summary as a standalone report, we now ask authors of relevant manuscripts to include experimental details in the Summary, and we have updated some of the requested information.

Why do we need a solar cell summary?

We and other editors across the Nature Portfolio believe that this is more useful to both reviewers and readers: it not only ensures transparency in reporting the results, but also allows a quick assessment of the solar cell data presented in a study, avoiding the need to go back and forth between the Summary and the main files.

Do we need to report the area of solar cells?

In particular, we now ask authors not only to report the area of the tested solar cells but also to indicate the type of area calculated, for example, total area, aperture area, active area.

Does Assembly control film forming kinetics for large-area solar cells?

The film-forming kinetics for large-area devices remains unclear for organic solar cells. Here, the authors propose assembly-controlled kinetics with the assembly determined by molecular configuration and tuned via external effects, contributing to the screening of device fabrication conditions.

Can spectroscopy detect trapped carriers in working perovskite solar cells?

Conventional spectroscopic techniques are not sufficiently selective to follow the dynamics of trapped carriers in working perovskite solar cells. Here, authors use infrared optical activation spectroscopy to observe real time evolution of trapped carriers and compare the behaviour of trapped holes.