{"id":227443,"date":"2025-12-19T01:37:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/hybrid-excitons-combining-the-best-of-both-worlds"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:37:54","slug":"hybrid-excitons-combining-the-best-of-both-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/hybrid-excitons-combining-the-best-of-both-worlds","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid excitons: Combining the best of both worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hybrid-excitons-combining-the-best-of-both-worlds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faster, more efficient, and more versatile\u2014these are the expectations for the technology that will produce our energy and handle information in the future. But how can these expectations be met? A major breakthrough in physics has now been made by an international team of researchers from the Universities of G\u00f6ttingen, Marburg, the Berlin Humboldt in Germany, and Graz in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists combined two highly promising types of material\u2014organic semiconductors and two-dimensional semiconductors\u2014and studied their combined response to light using photoelectron spectroscopy and many-body perturbation theory.<\/p>\n<p>This enabled them to observe and describe fundamental microscopic processes, such as energy transfer, at the 2D-organic interface with ultrafast time resolution, meaning one quadrillionth of a second. The combination of these properties holds promise for developing new technology such as the next generation of solar cells. The results are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-025-03075-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Physics.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faster, more efficient, and more versatile\u2014these are the expectations for the technology that will produce our energy and handle information in the future. But how can these expectations be met? A major breakthrough in physics has now been made by an international team of researchers from the Universities of G\u00f6ttingen, Marburg, the Berlin Humboldt in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227443","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}