{"id":200129,"date":"2024-11-25T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T17:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/a-trick-of-light-uc-irvine-researchers-turn-silicon-into-direct-bandgap-semiconductor"},"modified":"2024-11-25T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T17:25:24","slug":"a-trick-of-light-uc-irvine-researchers-turn-silicon-into-direct-bandgap-semiconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/a-trick-of-light-uc-irvine-researchers-turn-silicon-into-direct-bandgap-semiconductor","title":{"rendered":"A Trick of Light: UC Irvine researchers turn Silicon into Direct Bandgap Semiconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-trick-of-light-uc-irvine-researchers-turn-silicon-into-direct-bandgap-semiconductor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discovery enables manufacturing of ultrathin solar panels, advanced optoelectronics.<\/p>\n<p>By creating a new way for light and matter to interact, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have enabled the manufacturing of ultrathin silicon solar cells that could help spread the energy-converting technology to a vast range of applications, including thermoelectric clothing and onboard vehicle and device charging.<\/p>\n<p>The development, subject of a paper recently published as the cover story in the journal ACS Nano, hinges on the UC Irvine researchers\u2019 conversion of pure silicon from an indirect to a direct bandgap semiconductor through the way it interacts with light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery enables manufacturing of ultrathin solar panels, advanced optoelectronics. By creating a new way for light and matter to interact, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have enabled the manufacturing of ultrathin silicon solar cells that could help spread the energy-converting technology to a vast range of applications, including thermoelectric clothing and onboard vehicle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200129","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}