{"id":181940,"date":"2024-02-03T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T14:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/approaching-the-dream-of-the-alchemist"},"modified":"2024-02-03T08:22:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T14:22:35","slug":"approaching-the-dream-of-the-alchemist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/approaching-the-dream-of-the-alchemist","title":{"rendered":"Approaching the dream of the alchemist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/approaching-the-dream-of-the-alchemist2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The EPFL team, using tellurite glass produced by their Tokyo Tech colleagues, applied their expertise in femtosecond laser technology to alter the glass and study the laser\u2019s effect. After etching a simple line pattern onto a 1 cm diameter tellurite glass and exposing it to UV light and the visible spectrum, Torun found it could generate a current consistently for months.<\/p>\n<p>Bellouard expressed his excitement at the breakthrough, saying, \u201cWe\u2019re locally turning glass into a semiconductor using light. We\u2019re essentially transforming materials into something else, perhaps approaching the dream of the alchemist!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This development may pave the way for windows to function as single-material light-harvesting and sensing devices in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EPFL team, using tellurite glass produced by their Tokyo Tech colleagues, applied their expertise in femtosecond laser technology to alter the glass and study the laser\u2019s effect. After etching a simple line pattern onto a 1 cm diameter tellurite glass and exposing it to UV light and the visible spectrum, Torun found it could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181940","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=181940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}