{"id":110316,"date":"2020-07-22T13:03:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/oxygen-breathes-new-life-into-solar-cell-research"},"modified":"2020-07-22T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:03:18","slug":"oxygen-breathes-new-life-into-solar-cell-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/oxygen-breathes-new-life-into-solar-cell-research","title":{"rendered":"Oxygen breathes new life into solar cell research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oxygen-breathes-new-life-into-solar-cell-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Nanowerk News) Scientists in Australia and the United States have been able to \u2018upconvert\u2019 low energy light into high energy light, which can be captured by solar cells, in a new way, with oxygen the surprise secret ingredient. The results are published in Nature Photonics (\u201cPhotochemical upconversion of near-infrared light from below the silicon bandgap\u201d).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists in Australia and the United States have been able to \u2018upconvert\u2019 low energy light into high energy light, which can be captured by solar cells, in a new way, with oxygen the surprise secret ingredient.<\/p>\n<p>The results are published in Nature Photonics (\u201cPhotochemical upconversion of near-infrared light from below the silicon bandgap\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>While the approach\u2019s efficiencies are relatively low and more work is needed to achieve commercialisation, the research is an exciting development, according to senior author Professor Tim Schmidt from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science and UNSW Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe energy from the sun is not just visible light,\u201d Prof. Schmidt explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Nanowerk News) Scientists in Australia and the United States have been able to \u2018upconvert\u2019 low energy light into high energy light, which can be captured by solar cells, in a new way, with oxygen the surprise secret ingredient. The results are published in Nature Photonics (\u201cPhotochemical upconversion of near-infrared light from below the silicon bandgap\u201d). [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110316","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}