{"id":164950,"date":"2023-06-01T16:26:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T21:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/flexible-silicon-solar-cells-could-be-rolled-out-on-tricky-to-cover-buildings"},"modified":"2023-06-01T16:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T21:26:53","slug":"flexible-silicon-solar-cells-could-be-rolled-out-on-tricky-to-cover-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/flexible-silicon-solar-cells-could-be-rolled-out-on-tricky-to-cover-buildings","title":{"rendered":"Flexible silicon solar cells could be rolled out on tricky to cover buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flexible-silicon-solar-cells-could-be-rolled-out-on-tricky-to-cover-buildings.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The flexible silicon solar cell could find use in places where more expensive solar cells might have been favoured.<\/p>\n<p>A new technique for producing silicon solar cells that are more than 24% efficient and yet can be rolled up like a sheet of paper has been demonstrated. The work could allow solar cells to be used in applications that currently use more expensive thin-film alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flexible silicon solar cell could find use in places where more expensive solar cells might have been favoured. A new technique for producing silicon solar cells that are more than 24% efficient and yet can be rolled up like a sheet of paper has been demonstrated. The work could allow solar cells to be [\u2026]<\/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-164950","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\/164950","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=164950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}