{"id":137798,"date":"2022-04-07T06:03:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T11:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/could-hot-carrier-solar-cells-break-the-theoretical-efficiency-limit"},"modified":"2022-04-07T06:03:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T11:03:43","slug":"could-hot-carrier-solar-cells-break-the-theoretical-efficiency-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/could-hot-carrier-solar-cells-break-the-theoretical-efficiency-limit","title":{"rendered":"Could \u2018hot carrier\u2019 solar cells break the theoretical efficiency limit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-hot-carrier-solar-cells-break-the-theoretical-efficiency-limit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up to 50% of the energy absorbed by a solar cell is lost as heat. Scientists are now developing a third generation of \u201chot carrier\u201d solar cells that take advantage of this heat, potentially breaking the Shockley-Queisser limit of silicon-based PV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 50% of the energy absorbed by a solar cell is lost as heat. Scientists are now developing a third generation of \u201chot carrier\u201d solar cells that take advantage of this heat, potentially breaking the Shockley-Queisser limit of silicon-based PV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137798","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\/137798","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}