{"id":109448,"date":"2020-07-02T20:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T03:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/crystal-structure-discovered-almost-200-years-ago-could-hold-key-to-solar-cell-revolution"},"modified":"2020-07-02T20:47:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T03:47:30","slug":"crystal-structure-discovered-almost-200-years-ago-could-hold-key-to-solar-cell-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/crystal-structure-discovered-almost-200-years-ago-could-hold-key-to-solar-cell-revolution","title":{"rendered":"Crystal structure discovered almost 200 years ago could hold key to solar cell revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crystal-structure-discovered-almost-200-years-ago-could-hold-key-to-solar-cell-revolution2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solar energy researchers at Oregon State University are shining their scientific spotlight on materials with a crystal structure discovered nearly two centuries ago.<\/p>\n<p>Not all materials with the structure, known as perovskites, are semiconductors. But perovskites based on a metal and a halogen are, and they hold tremendous potential as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photovoltaic+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photovoltaic cells<\/a> that could be much less expensive to make than the silicon-based <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a> that have owned the market since its inception in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Enough potential, researchers say, to perhaps someday carve significantly into fossil fuels\u2019 share of the energy sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar energy researchers at Oregon State University are shining their scientific spotlight on materials with a crystal structure discovered nearly two centuries ago. Not all materials with the structure, known as perovskites, are semiconductors. But perovskites based on a metal and a halogen are, and they hold tremendous potential as photovoltaic cells that could be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109448","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\/109448","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}