{"id":82465,"date":"2018-09-10T08:23:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/photoelectrode-that-can-harvest-85-percent-of-visible-light"},"modified":"2018-09-10T08:23:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:23:48","slug":"photoelectrode-that-can-harvest-85-percent-of-visible-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/photoelectrode-that-can-harvest-85-percent-of-visible-light","title":{"rendered":"Photoelectrode that can harvest 85 percent of visible light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photoelectrode-that-can-harvest-85-percent-of-visible-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed a photoelectrode that can harvest 85 percent of visible light in a 30 nanometers-thin semiconductor layer between gold layers, converting light energy 11 times more efficiently than previous methods.<\/p>\n<p>In the pursuit of realizing a sustainable society, there is an ever-increasing demand to develop revolutionary solar cells or artificial photosynthesis systems that utilize <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/visible+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visible light<\/a> energy from the sun while using as few materials as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The research team, led by Professor Hiroaki Misawa of the Research Institute for Electronic Science at Hokkaido University, has been aiming to develop a photoelectrode that can harvest visible light across a wide spectral range by using <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gold+nanoparticles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gold nanoparticles<\/a> loaded on a semiconductor. But merely applying a layer of gold nanoparticles did not lead to a sufficient amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+absorption\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light absorption<\/a>, because they took in light with only a narrow spectral range.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-09-photoelectrode-harvest-percent-visible.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;09-photoelectrode-harvest-percent-visible.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed a photoelectrode that can harvest 85 percent of visible light in a 30 nanometers-thin semiconductor layer between gold layers, converting light energy 11 times more efficiently than previous methods. In the pursuit of realizing a sustainable society, there is an ever-increasing demand to develop revolutionary solar cells or artificial photosynthesis systems that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82465","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=82465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}