{"id":17937,"date":"2015-09-29T01:47:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T08:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/first-optical-rectenna-converts-light-to-dc-current"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:09:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:09:55","slug":"first-optical-rectenna-converts-light-to-dc-current","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/first-optical-rectenna-converts-light-to-dc-current","title":{"rendered":"First optical \u2018rectenna\u2019 converts light to DC current"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/140345487\" width=\"638\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>This schematic shows the components of the optical rectenna developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology (credit: Thomas Bougher, Georgia Tech)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Using nanometer-scale components, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have demonstrated the first optical rectenna, a device that combines the functions of an antenna and a rectifier diode to convert light directly into DC current.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/first-optical-rectenna-converts-light-to-dc-current?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=275d98e211-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-275d98e211-281938717\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This schematic shows the components of the optical rectenna developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology (credit: Thomas Bougher, Georgia Tech) Using nanometer-scale components, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have demonstrated the first optical rectenna, a device that combines the functions of an antenna and a rectifier diode to convert light directly into DC current. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17937","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45710,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17937\/revisions\/45710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}