{"id":158284,"date":"2023-02-16T18:26:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T00:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/perovskites-a-dirt-cheap-alternative-to-silicon-just-got-a-lot-more-efficient"},"modified":"2023-02-16T18:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T00:26:20","slug":"perovskites-a-dirt-cheap-alternative-to-silicon-just-got-a-lot-more-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/perovskites-a-dirt-cheap-alternative-to-silicon-just-got-a-lot-more-efficient","title":{"rendered":"Perovskites, a \u2018dirt cheap\u2019 alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/perovskites-a-dirt-cheap-alternative-to-silicon-just-got-a-lot-more-efficient2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silicon, the standard semiconducting material used in a host of applications\u2014computer central processing units (CPUs), semiconductor chips, detectors, and solar cells\u2014is an abundant, naturally occurring material. However, it is expensive to mine and to purify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon, the standard semiconducting material used in a host of applications\u2014computer central processing units (CPUs), semiconductor chips, detectors, and solar cells\u2014is an abundant, naturally occurring material. However, it is expensive to mine and to purify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158284","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}