{"id":172957,"date":"2023-09-28T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/solar-cell-material-can-assist-self-driving-cars-in-the-dark"},"modified":"2023-09-28T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:22:27","slug":"solar-cell-material-can-assist-self-driving-cars-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/solar-cell-material-can-assist-self-driving-cars-in-the-dark","title":{"rendered":"Solar cell material can assist self-driving cars in the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-cell-material-can-assist-self-driving-cars-in-the-dark2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Material used in organic solar cells can also be used as light sensors in electronics. This has been shown by researchers at Link\u00f6ping University, Sweden, who have developed a type of sensor able to detect circularly polarized red light. Their study, published in <i>Nature Photonics<\/i>, paves the way for more reliable self-driving vehicles and other uses where night vision is important.<\/p>\n<p>Some beetles with shiny wings, firefly larvae and colorful mantis shrimps reflect a particular kind of light known as circularly polarized light. This is due to <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/microscopic+structures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microscopic structures<\/a> in their shell that reflect the electromagnetic light waves in a particular way.<\/p>\n<p>Circularly polarized light also has many technical uses, such as satellite communication, bioimaging and other sensing technologies. This is because circularly polarizing light carries a vast amount of information, due to the fact that the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electromagnetic+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electromagnetic field<\/a> around the light beam spirals either to the right or to the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Material used in organic solar cells can also be used as light sensors in electronics. This has been shown by researchers at Link\u00f6ping University, Sweden, who have developed a type of sensor able to detect circularly polarized red light. Their study, published in Nature Photonics, paves the way for more reliable self-driving vehicles and other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1633,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172957","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}