{"id":122690,"date":"2021-05-18T17:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T00:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/a-ghostly-solution-strange-property-of-the-quantum-realm-enables-efficient-energy-harvesting-in-tiny-device"},"modified":"2021-05-18T17:22:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T00:22:44","slug":"a-ghostly-solution-strange-property-of-the-quantum-realm-enables-efficient-energy-harvesting-in-tiny-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/a-ghostly-solution-strange-property-of-the-quantum-realm-enables-efficient-energy-harvesting-in-tiny-device","title":{"rendered":"A Ghostly Solution: Strange Property of the Quantum Realm Enables Efficient Energy Harvesting in Tiny Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-ghostly-solution-strange-property-of-the-quantum-realm-enables-efficient-energy-harvesting-in-tiny-device.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have tapped into a poltergeist-like property of electrons to design devices that can capture excess heat from their environment \u2014 and turn it into usable electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have described their new \u201coptical rectennas\u201d in a paper published today (May 18, 2021) in the journal <em>Nature Communications<\/em>. These devices, which are too small to see with the naked eye, are roughly 100 times more efficient than similar tools used for energy harvesting. And they achieve that feat through a mysterious process called \u201cresonant tunneling\u201d \u2014 in which electrons pass through solid matter without spending any energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey go in like ghosts,\u201d said lead author Amina Belkadi, who recently earned her PhD from the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (ECEE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have tapped into a poltergeist-like property of electrons to design devices that can capture excess heat from their environment \u2014 and turn it into usable electricity. The researchers have described their new \u201coptical rectennas\u201d in a paper published today (May 18, 2021) in the journal Nature Communications. These [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122690","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=122690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}