An international team of scientist of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Leibniz University Hannover (Leibniz Universität Hannover) and the Ioffe Institute report a way to improve nanocomposite material, opening new opportunities in industry. The study, titled “The mechanism of charge carrier generation at the TiO2—n-Si heterojunction activated by gold nanoparticles,” is published in Semiconductor Science and Technology.