{"id":126125,"date":"2021-08-11T21:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T04:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/crystal-arrangement-results-in-1000x-more-power-from-ferroelectric-solar-cells"},"modified":"2021-08-11T21:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T04:22:49","slug":"crystal-arrangement-results-in-1000x-more-power-from-ferroelectric-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/crystal-arrangement-results-in-1000x-more-power-from-ferroelectric-solar-cells","title":{"rendered":"Crystal arrangement results in 1,000x more power from ferroelectric solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crystal-arrangement-results-in-1000x-more-power-from-ferroelectric-solar-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>German researchers developed a lattice arrangement of three different layers of ferroelectric crystals that created a powerful photovoltaic effect.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Combining ultra-thin layers of different materials can raise the photovoltaic effect of solar cells by a factor of 1,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/7\/23\/eabe4206\">according to researchers<\/a> at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings, published in the journal \u201cScience Advances,\u201d described a lattice arrangement of three different layers of ferroelectric crystals (in this case, of barium titanate, strontium titanate, and calcium titanate) that created a powerful solar energy producing effect.<\/p>\n<p>Ferroelectric means that the material has spatially separated positive and negative charges. The charge separation leads to an asymmetric structure that enables electricity to be generated from light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German researchers developed a lattice arrangement of three different layers of ferroelectric crystals that created a powerful photovoltaic effect. Combining ultra-thin layers of different materials can raise the photovoltaic effect of solar cells by a factor of 1,000 according to researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in Germany. Their findings, published in the journal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126125","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\/126125","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=126125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}