{"id":190,"date":"2009-05-03T13:20:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T12:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=190"},"modified":"2009-05-03T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T12:23:32","slug":"soon-we-will-be-wearing-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Soon we will be wearing solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencentral.com\/news\/image_db\/2026092\/CAT1970_SeeThroughSolarCellsPOD.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"426\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/flexiblecell.jpg\" alt=\"A flexible solar cell\" title=\"Flexible solar cell\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/flexiblecell.jpg 426w, https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/flexiblecell-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solar cells are photovoltaic semiconductors. They are made of a p-type and n-type semiconductors sandwiched together. When light falls on the narrow depletion junction an electron hole pair is produced. These electron hole pairs drift away and create a small potential difference.<br \/>\nThe more light shining on the pn junction the more electron hole pairs are produced which in turn creates a larger potential difference.<br \/>\nThe only problem is that these cells are rigid. Check out this video below and news report to find out how they are being made flexible.<br \/>\nPass that solar jumper please!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencentral.com\/news\/image_db\/2026092\/CAT1970_SeeThroughSolarCellsPOD.mp4\">Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/30\/business\/businessspecial2\/30solar.html?_r=2\">Report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar cells are photovoltaic semiconductors. They are made of a p-type and n-type semiconductors sandwiched together. When light falls on the narrow depletion junction an electron hole pair is produced. These electron hole pairs drift away and create a small potential difference. The more light shining on the pn junction the more electron hole pairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}