{"id":3928279,"date":"2026-10-05T16:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/atomic-motion-could-help-push-solar-cells-beyond-conventional-limits\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:02:38","slug":"atomic-motion-could-help-push-solar-cells-beyond-conventional-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/atomic-motion-could-help-push-solar-cells-beyond-conventional-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Atomic motion could help push solar cells beyond conventional limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE), a photoelectric effect that generates photocurrent without a p\u2013n junction, can persist even when a material&#8217;s average crystal structure remains centrosymmetric, a study from Institute of Science Tokyo has found. Researchers demonstrated this in CuCrP2S6, a van der Waals material that transitions from a noncentrosymmetric to a centrosymmetric average structure. The finding challenges the conventional view of BPVE and suggests a new strategy for enhancing photoelectric conversion.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-atomic-motion-solar-cells-conventional.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE), a photoelectric effect that generates photocurrent without a p\u2013n junction, can persist even when a material&#8217;s average crystal structure remains centrosymmetric, a study from Institute of Science Tokyo has found. Researchers demonstrated this in CuCrP2S6, a van der Waals material that transitions from a noncentrosymmetric to a centrosymmetric average structure. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}