{"id":140637,"date":"2022-06-15T15:38:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/what-happens-when-light-hits-solar-cells-scientists-just-observed-the-first-moments"},"modified":"2022-06-15T15:38:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:38:05","slug":"what-happens-when-light-hits-solar-cells-scientists-just-observed-the-first-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/what-happens-when-light-hits-solar-cells-scientists-just-observed-the-first-moments","title":{"rendered":"What happens when light hits solar cells? Scientists just observed the first moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x-K-XOvfcAo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Everything is about to be illuminated.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Imperial College London and Newcastle University has just observed what happens after light strikes solar cells.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers employed a cutting-edge technique to analyze organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials that harvest the sunlight to generate electricity and peered into the first fractions of a second after light meets the cells, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\/237319\/ultrafast-lasers-used-probe-next-generation-solar\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a press release states<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything is about to be illuminated. A team of researchers from Imperial College London and Newcastle University has just observed what happens after light strikes solar cells. The researchers employed a cutting-edge technique to analyze organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials that harvest the sunlight to generate electricity and peered into the first fractions of a second [\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-140637","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\/140637","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=140637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}