{"id":9403,"date":"2013-03-04T11:14:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T17:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9403"},"modified":"2013-03-04T11:15:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T17:15:50","slug":"new-nature-physics-paper-shows-that-graphenes-unique-properties-could-be-used-to-make-better-photovoltaic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9403","title":{"rendered":"Graphene\u2019s Unique Properties Could Be Used to Make Better Photovoltaic Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Conventional materials that turn light into electricity, like silicon and gallium arsenide, generate a single electron for each photon absorbed. Since a photon contains more energy than one electron can carry, much of the energy contained in the incoming light is lost as heat. Now, new research reveals that when graphene absorbs a photon it generates multiple electrons capable of driving a current. This means that if graphene devices for converting light to electricity come to fruition, they could be more efficient than the devices commonly used today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/511751\/research-hints-at-graphenes-photovoltaic-potential\/\">New Nature Physics Paper Shows That Graphene\u2019s Unique Properties Could Be Used to Make Better Photovoltaic Devices | MIT Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional materials that turn light into electricity, like silicon and gallium arsenide, generate a single electron for each photon absorbed. Since a photon contains more energy than one electron can carry, much of the energy contained in the incoming light &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9403\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[631,1056,982],"class_list":["post-9403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-material-science","tag-photovoltaic","tag-solar-cells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9404,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions\/9404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}