{"id":4623,"date":"2010-10-25T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T16:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2010-10-25T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T16:03:40","slug":"solar-cells-get-two-electrons-for-the-price-of-one-efficiency-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/solar-cells-get-two-electrons-for-the-price-of-one-efficiency-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar cells get two electrons for the price of one, efficiency bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may still be a lab experiment, but still, this could led to eventual mainstream adoption of solar power&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Photoelectric current as function of photon energy was measured on single crystal TiO2 coated with a monolayer of PbS nanoparticles. The experiments conclusively showed that multiple electrons were generated and extracted from the nanoparticles for each high energy photon that was absorbed. The result is a theoretical efficiency increase from 31 percent in single junction photovoltaic cells to 47 percent in a MEG cell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ars Technica explores how\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2010\/09\/solar-cells-get-two-electrons-for-the-price-of-one-efficiency-bonus.ars?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss\">Solar cells could get two electrons for the price of one, efficiency bonus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may still be a lab experiment, but still, this could led to eventual mainstream adoption of solar power&#8230; Photoelectric current as function of photon energy was measured on single crystal TiO2 coated with a monolayer of PbS nanoparticles. The experiments conclusively showed that multiple electrons were generated and extracted from the nanoparticles for each <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/solar-cells-get-two-electrons-for-the-price-of-one-efficiency-bonus\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[27,54,48],"tags":[265,352,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->