{"id":3928662,"date":"2026-10-29T19:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/electrical-guardrails-for-charge-carriers-a-new-approach-to-harness-graphene-for-solar-cells\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T19:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:03:23","slug":"electrical-guardrails-for-charge-carriers-a-new-approach-to-harness-graphene-for-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/electrical-guardrails-for-charge-carriers-a-new-approach-to-harness-graphene-for-solar-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrical guardrails for charge carriers: A new approach to harness graphene for solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms in which electrons can move with high mobility, making it promising for high-speed electronic components. Yet it is not very efficient at converting light into electricity. While light absorbed by graphene does excite electrons, leaving behind positively charged carriers called &#8216;holes,&#8217; the absorbed light energy cannot be harnessed effectively unless electrons and holes are separated and directed to different contacts.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-electrical-guardrails-carriers-approach-harness.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms in which electrons can move with high mobility, making it promising for high-speed electronic components. Yet it is not very efficient at converting light into electricity. While light absorbed by graphene does excite electrons, leaving behind positively charged carriers called &#8216;holes,&#8217; the absorbed light energy cannot be [&#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-3928662","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\/3928662","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=3928662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}