{"id":193661,"date":"2024-07-27T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T17:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/magnetic-fields-help-understand-light-particle-splitting-for-boosting-solar-cell-efficiency"},"modified":"2024-07-27T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T17:24:11","slug":"magnetic-fields-help-understand-light-particle-splitting-for-boosting-solar-cell-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/magnetic-fields-help-understand-light-particle-splitting-for-boosting-solar-cell-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic fields help understand light particle splitting for boosting solar cell efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetic-fields-help-understand-light-particle-splitting-for-boosting-solar-cell-efficiency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are closer to giving the next generation of solar cells a powerful boost by integrating a process that could make the technology more efficient by breaking particles of light\u2014photons\u2014into small chunks.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41557-024-01591-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Chemistry<\/i> researchers unravel the scientific understanding of what happens when light particles split\u2014a process called <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/singlet+fission\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">singlet fission <\/a>\u2014and its underlying workings.<\/p>\n<p>Lead researcher Professor Tim Schmidt from UNSW Sydney\u2019s School of Chemistry has studied singlet fission for more than a decade. He says the process could be invoked and applied to improve existing silicon solar cell technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are closer to giving the next generation of solar cells a powerful boost by integrating a process that could make the technology more efficient by breaking particles of light\u2014photons\u2014into small chunks. In a study published in Nature Chemistry researchers unravel the scientific understanding of what happens when light particles split\u2014a process called singlet fission [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193661","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=193661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}