{"id":224337,"date":"2025-10-31T13:09:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/sunlight-split-in-two-organic-layer-promises-leap-in-solar-power-efficiency"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:09:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:09:27","slug":"sunlight-split-in-two-organic-layer-promises-leap-in-solar-power-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/sunlight-split-in-two-organic-layer-promises-leap-in-solar-power-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Sunlight split in two: Organic layer promises leap in solar power efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sunlight-split-in-two-organic-layer-promises-leap-in-solar-power-efficiency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the race to make solar energy cheaper and more efficient, a team of UNSW Sydney scientists and engineers have found a way to push past one of the biggest limits in renewable technology.<\/p>\n<p>Singlet fission is a process where a single particle of light\u2014a photon\u2014can be split into two packets of energy, effectively doubling the electrical output when applied to technologies harnessing the sun.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsenergylett.5c01930\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> appearing in <i>ACS Energy Letters<\/i>, the UNSW team\u2014known as \u201cOmega Silicon\u201d\u2014showed how this works on an <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/organic+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">organic material<\/a> that could one day be mass-produced specifically for use with solar panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the race to make solar energy cheaper and more efficient, a team of UNSW Sydney scientists and engineers have found a way to push past one of the biggest limits in renewable technology. Singlet fission is a process where a single particle of light\u2014a photon\u2014can be split into two packets of energy, effectively doubling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224337","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\/224337","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}