{"id":80995,"date":"2018-07-28T07:43:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/breakthrough-could-triple-the-energy-collected"},"modified":"2018-07-31T12:18:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:18:26","slug":"breakthrough-could-triple-the-energy-collected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/breakthrough-could-triple-the-energy-collected","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough could triple the energy collected by solar to 60% efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/apI-hYy4EWc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emps.exeter.ac.uk\/renewable-energy\/news\/articles\/scientistsusefunnel-visio.html\">Current solar cells are able to convert into electricity around 20% of the energy received from the Sun, but a new technique has the potential to convert around 60% of it by funneling the energy more efficiently.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK researchers can now \u2018funnel\u2019 electrical charge onto a chip. Using the atomically thin semiconductor hafnium disulphide (HfS2), which is oxidized with a high-intensity UV laser, the team were able to engineer an electric field that funnels electrical charges to a specific area of the chip, where they can be more easily extracted.<\/p>\n<p>This method has the potential to harvest three times the energy compared with traditional systems. The researchers believe their breakthrough could result in solar panels, no bigger than a book, producing enough energy to power a family-sized house.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/07\/breakthrough-could-triple-the-energy-collected-by-solar-to-60-efficiency.html\">https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/07\/breakthrough-could-tri...iency.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current solar cells are able to convert into electricity around 20% of the energy received from the Sun, but a new technique has the potential to convert around 60% of it by funneling the energy more efficiently. UK researchers can now \u2018funnel\u2019 electrical charge onto a chip. Using the atomically thin semiconductor hafnium disulphide (HfS2), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,15,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-habitats","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80995","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80996,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80995\/revisions\/80996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}