{"id":108213,"date":"2020-06-05T13:43:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/discovery-unlocks-hot-electrons-for-more-efficient-energy-use"},"modified":"2020-06-05T13:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T20:43:37","slug":"discovery-unlocks-hot-electrons-for-more-efficient-energy-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/discovery-unlocks-hot-electrons-for-more-efficient-energy-use","title":{"rendered":"Discovery unlocks \u2018hot\u2019 electrons for more efficient energy use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-unlocks-hot-electrons-for-more-efficient-energy-use2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Highly energetic, \u201chot\u201d electrons have the potential to help solar panels more efficiently harvest light energy.<\/p>\n<p>But scientists haven\u2019t been able to measure the energies of those electrons, limiting their use. Researchers at Purdue University and the University of Michigan built a way to analyze those energies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been many theoretical models of hot electrons but no direct experiments or measurements of what they look like,\u201d said Vladimir \u201cVlad\u201d Shalaev (shal-AYV), Purdue University\u2019s Bob and Anne Burnett Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, who led the Purdue team in this collaborative work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly energetic, \u201chot\u201d electrons have the potential to help solar panels more efficiently harvest light energy. But scientists haven\u2019t been able to measure the energies of those electrons, limiting their use. Researchers at Purdue University and the University of Michigan built a way to analyze those energies. \u201cThere have been many theoretical models of hot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}