{"id":98084,"date":"2019-11-02T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/nanotechnology-breakthrough-enables-conversion-of-infrared-light-to-energy"},"modified":"2019-11-02T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T03:43:08","slug":"nanotechnology-breakthrough-enables-conversion-of-infrared-light-to-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/nanotechnology-breakthrough-enables-conversion-of-infrared-light-to-energy","title":{"rendered":"Nanotechnology breakthrough enables conversion of infrared light to energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanotechnology-breakthrough-enables-conversion-of-infrared-light-to-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capturing infrared light for solar cell applications.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Invisible infrared light accounts for half of all solar radiation on the Earth\u2019s surface, yet ordinary solar energy systems have limited ability in converting it to power. A breakthrough in research at KTH could change that.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Hans \u00c5gren, professor in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theoretical+chemistry\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theoretical chemistry<\/a> at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, has developed a film that can be applied on top of ordinary <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar cells<\/a>, which would enable them to use <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/infrared+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infrared light<\/a> in energy conversion and increase efficiency by 10 percent or more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have achieved a 10 percent increase in efficiency without yet optimizing the technology,\u201d \u00c5gren says. \u201cWith a little more work, we estimate that a 20 to 25 percent increase in efficiency could be achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capturing infrared light for solar cell applications. Invisible infrared light accounts for half of all solar radiation on the Earth\u2019s surface, yet ordinary solar energy systems have limited ability in converting it to power. A breakthrough in research at KTH could change that. A research team led by Hans \u00c5gren, professor in theoretical chemistry at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98084","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\/98084","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}