{"id":19602,"date":"2015-11-25T13:48:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T21:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/new-technology-makes-metal-wires-on-solar-cells-nearly-invisible-to-light"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:18:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:18:56","slug":"new-technology-makes-metal-wires-on-solar-cells-nearly-invisible-to-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/new-technology-makes-metal-wires-on-solar-cells-nearly-invisible-to-light","title":{"rendered":"New technology makes metal wires on solar cells nearly invisible to light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technology-makes-metal-wires-on-solar-cells-nearly-invisible-to-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A solar cell is basically a semiconductor, which converts sunlight into electricity, sandwiched between metal contacts that carry the electrical current.<\/p>\n<p>But this widely used design has a flaw: The shiny metal on top of the cell actually reflects sunlight away from the semiconductor where electricity is produced, reducing the cell\u2019s efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Stanford University scientists have discovered how to hide the reflective upper contact and funnel light directly to the semiconductor below. Their findings, published in the journal <i>ACS Nano<\/i>, could lead to a new paradigm in the design and fabrication of <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\">solar cells<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-11-technology-metal-wires-solar-cells.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solar cell is basically a semiconductor, which converts sunlight into electricity, sandwiched between metal contacts that carry the electrical current. But this widely used design has a flaw: The shiny metal on top of the cell actually reflects sunlight away from the semiconductor where electricity is produced, reducing the cell\u2019s efficiency. Now, Stanford University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19602","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\/19602","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=19602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69135,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19602\/revisions\/69135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}