{"id":245476,"date":"2026-10-16T01:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/chemical-fine-tuning-lifts-perovskite-leds-to-37-efficiency"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:37:33","slug":"chemical-fine-tuning-lifts-perovskite-leds-to-37-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/chemical-fine-tuning-lifts-perovskite-leds-to-37-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Chemical fine-tuning lifts perovskite LEDs to 37% efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemical-fine-tuning-lifts-perovskite-leds-to-37-efficiency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemists developed a way to significantly improve the performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) made with perovskite. The journal <i>Nature<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-11120-3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> the advancement in these hybrid LEDs, which hold potential for a range of uses, including biomedical sensing, low-light imaging and automated facial recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Most previous work in perovskite LEDs has yielded rates of quantum efficiency\u2014the ability to convert electricity to light\u2014within a range of 20\u201330%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur discovery leads to an efficiency rate closer to 40%. That\u2019s a big jump,\u201d says Letian Dou, senior author of the paper and professor of chemistry at Emory University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemists developed a way to significantly improve the performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) made with perovskite. The journal Nature published the advancement in these hybrid LEDs, which hold potential for a range of uses, including biomedical sensing, low-light imaging and automated facial recognition. Most previous work in perovskite LEDs has yielded rates of quantum efficiency\u2014the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245476","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=245476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}