{"id":117607,"date":"2020-12-25T02:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T10:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/goldilocks-and-the-three-quantum-dots-just-right-for-peak-solar-panel-performance"},"modified":"2020-12-25T02:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T10:22:17","slug":"goldilocks-and-the-three-quantum-dots-just-right-for-peak-solar-panel-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/goldilocks-and-the-three-quantum-dots-just-right-for-peak-solar-panel-performance","title":{"rendered":"Goldilocks and the three quantum dots: Just right for peak solar panel performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/goldilocks-and-the-three-quantum-dots-just-right-for-peak-solar-panel-performance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Australia have developed a process for calculating the perfect size and density of quantum dots needed to achieve record efficiency in solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum dots, man-made nanocrystals 100, 000 times thinner than a sheet of paper, can be used as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a> sensitisers, absorbing infrared and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/visible+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visible light<\/a> and transferring it to other molecules.<\/p>\n<p>This could enable new types of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+panels\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar panels<\/a> to capture more of the light spectrum and generate more electrical current, through a process of \u2018light fusion\u2019 known as photochemical upconversion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Australia have developed a process for calculating the perfect size and density of quantum dots needed to achieve record efficiency in solar panels. Quantum dots, man-made nanocrystals 100, 000 times thinner than a sheet of paper, can be used as light sensitisers, absorbing infrared and visible light and transferring it to other molecules. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1617,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117607","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}