{"id":755,"date":"2010-09-05T12:28:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T17:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanowizardry.info\/?p=755"},"modified":"2010-09-05T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T17:28:25","slug":"si-inverse-opal-solar-cell-work-highlighted-in-nature-photonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"Si Inverse Opal Solar Cell work highlighted in Nature Photonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Researchers from Japan and Canada have produced the first ever solar  cell containing an integrated 3D silicon photonic crystal. The cell is  based on an intrinsic silicon layer with an inverse opal structure \u2014 a  3D photonic crystal with an omnidirectional photonic bandgap \u2014  sandwiched between n- and p-doped crystalline silicon layers. The cell  traps light and prolongs the lifetime of charge carriers, thus reducing  leakage current and improving the cell&#8217;s fill factor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8212; Nature Photonics<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the highlight <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nphoton\/journal\/v4\/n9\/full\/nphoton.2010.199.html\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>and the paper <a href=\"http:\/\/apl.aip.org\/applab\/v96\/i24\/p242102_s1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Japan and Canada have produced the first ever solar cell containing an integrated 3D silicon photonic crystal. The cell is based on an intrinsic silicon layer with an inverse opal structure \u2014 a 3D photonic crystal with an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=755\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}