{"id":34790,"date":"2017-02-22T22:25:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T06:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/solar-photovoltaic-windows-rely-on-inexpensive-silicon-quantum-dots"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:50:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:50:26","slug":"solar-photovoltaic-windows-rely-on-inexpensive-silicon-quantum-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/solar-photovoltaic-windows-rely-on-inexpensive-silicon-quantum-dots","title":{"rendered":"Solar photovoltaic windows rely on inexpensive silicon quantum dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-photovoltaic-windows-rely-on-inexpensive-silicon-quantum-dots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserfocusworld.com\/articles\/print\/volume-50\/issue-10\/world-news\/solar-concentrators-colorless-dopants-make-luminescent-solar-concentrator-transparent-as-a-window.html\" target=\"_blank\">Luminescent solar concentrators<\/a> (LSCs), which are flat panes of mostly transparent material that take sunlight (both diffuse and directed) and concentrate it at the panes\u2019 edges, can be used as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserfocusworld.com\/articles\/2015\/08\/colorless-non-toxic-quantum-dots-promise-efficient-lsc-based-bipv-solar-windows.html\" target=\"_blank\">photovoltaic windows<\/a>,\u201d which, as the name makes clear, collect solar energy while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserfocusworld.com\/articles\/2016\/10\/luminescent-concentrator-solar-windows-grow-in-size.html\" target=\"_blank\">serving as ordinary windows<\/a>. Now, researchers at the Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and Glass to Power Srl (both of Milano, Italy) and the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) are lowering the potential cost of such windows by using silicon nanoparticles as the fluorescent absorber\/emitter in the LSC windows.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserfocusworld.com\/articles\/2017\/02\/solar-photovoltaic-windows-rely-on-inexpensive-silicon-quantum-dots.html\">http:\/\/www.laserfocusworld.com\/articles\/2017\/02\/solar-photov...-dots.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs), which are flat panes of mostly transparent material that take sunlight (both diffuse and directed) and concentrate it at the panes\u2019 edges, can be used as \u201cphotovoltaic windows,\u201d which, as the name makes clear, collect solar energy while serving as ordinary windows. Now, researchers at the Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1617,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34790","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48761,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34790\/revisions\/48761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}