{"id":114784,"date":"2020-10-20T19:29:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T02:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/etching-a-simple-pattern-on-solar-panels-boosts-light-absorption"},"modified":"2020-10-20T19:29:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T02:29:29","slug":"etching-a-simple-pattern-on-solar-panels-boosts-light-absorption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/etching-a-simple-pattern-on-solar-panels-boosts-light-absorption","title":{"rendered":"Etching a Simple Pattern on Solar Panels Boosts Light Absorption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/etching-a-simple-pattern-on-solar-panels-boosts-light-absorption3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A simple way to improve efficiency\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-how-solar-panels-could-soon-be-generating-power-at-night\">Solar panels<\/a> offer huge potential to move more people away from electricity generated from burning coal, and a new innovation devised by scientists stands to more than double the amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/after-40-years-of-hunting-scientists-identify-a-key-flaw-in-solar-panel-efficiency\">light captured by conventional solar cells<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, a team of scientists from the UK, Portugal, and Brazil discovered that etching a shallow pattern of grating lines in a checkerboard design on solar cells can enhance the current generated by crystalline silicon (c-Si) by as much as 125 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found a simple trick for boosting the absorption of slim solar cells,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/news\/2020\/research\/solar-panel-design-renewable-energy\/\">explains<\/a> photovoltaics researcher Christian Schuster from the University of York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple way to improve efficiency\u2026 Solar panels offer huge potential to move more people away from electricity generated from burning coal, and a new innovation devised by scientists stands to more than double the amount of light captured by conventional solar cells. In a new study, a team of scientists from the UK, Portugal, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114784","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\/114784","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}