Call for Abstracts
Deadline 13 March 2026
Authors wishing to present at the Conference ReteIFV 2026 (11–12 June 2026, Catania, Italy) must submit an abstract by 13 March 2026.
Before submitting, authors should select the topic and subtopic that best reflect the main novelty of their work. Topic descriptions are brief and intended to guide you to the correct area.
Abstracts must be prepared strictly according to the Abstract Submission Guidelines. Submissions that do not comply will not be considered. Upload one PDF file via the Online Abstract Submission tool in the User Area. The PDF must not be password-protected.
The person who uploads the abstract will automatically be listed as the contact author, so please log in using the appropriate account.
All abstracts will be reviewed by independent experts from the PV research community. Accepted contributions will be presented as oral or visual poster sessions. Authors will be notified of the Programme Committee’s decision by April 2026.
Topics
1. Fundamental science and proof of principles
This session highlights the fundamental science that underpins photovoltaic technologies and the proof-of-principle concepts shaping emerging PV. Talks explore how material science, microstructure, and interfaces govern light absorption, charge transport, and stability across advanced absorbers, contacts, and device stacks. Emphasis is placed on new materials, innovative architectures, robust measurement/characterization approaches, and scalable pathways that translate laboratory insights into next-generation PV performance.
2. PV components, system and applications
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Balance of Plant components, energy storage systems, grid interaction, switching converters for photovoltaic applications, smart inverters, monitoring and diagnostic systems, artificial intelligence applications to photovoltaics, agrivoltaics, floating systems, trackers, applications to mobility, building integration, wearable applications.
3. PV value chain, socio-economic aspects and sustainability
This topic covers the broad spectrum of multidisciplinary efforts required to ensure the rapid deployment of PV technologies on a large and global scale as a key technology of a just green transition. As such it covers a range of aspects that ensure the sustainable implementation of PV, through financing, market development and policy making, economics of PV manufacturing, sustainability, PV in the circular economy, as well as addressing and ensuring social justice and benefit sharing in the energy transition.
Abstract submission guidelines
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