{"id":88394,"date":"2019-03-05T10:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/chirality-yields-colossal-photocurrent"},"modified":"2019-03-05T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:42:40","slug":"chirality-yields-colossal-photocurrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/chirality-yields-colossal-photocurrent","title":{"rendered":"Chirality yields colossal photocurrent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chirality-yields-colossal-photocurrent.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recently discovered Weyl semimetal delivers the largest intrinsic conversion of light to electricity of any material, an international team lead by a group of Boston College researchers reports today in the journal Nature Materials.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery is based on a unique aspect of the material where electrons can be separated by their chirality, or handedness\u2014similar to DNA. The findings may offer a new route to efficient generation of electricity from light, as well as for thermal or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+sensing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical sensing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe discovered that the Weyl semimetal Tantalum Arsenide, has a colossal bulk photovoltaic effect\u2014an intrinsic, or non-linear, generation of current from light more than ten times larger than ever previously achieved,\u201d said Boston College Associate Professor of Physics Kenneth Burch, a lead author of the article, titled \u201cColossal mid-infrared bulk photovoltaic effect in a type-I Weyl semimetal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-03-chirality-yields-colossal-photocurrent.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;03-chirality-yields-colossal-photocurrent.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently discovered Weyl semimetal delivers the largest intrinsic conversion of light to electricity of any material, an international team lead by a group of Boston College researchers reports today in the journal Nature Materials. The discovery is based on a unique aspect of the material where electrons can be separated by their chirality, or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88394","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}