{"id":456781,"date":"2018-03-23T10:23:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=163df4091f58fead7d321d11721471f9"},"modified":"2018-03-23T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:23:06","slug":"researchers-make-breakthrough-in-light-trapping-technology-for-industrial-multicrystalline-silicon-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=456781","title":{"rendered":"Researchers make breakthrough in light trapping technology for industrial multicrystalline silicon solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a low-cost and effective technique to texture diamond-wire sawn (DWS) multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) wafers. DWS wafers sliced using diamond-coated wires allow substantial cost savings compared to traditional slurry-cut wafers. Texturing is the process of roughening the silicon wafer surface so as to minimise front surface reflection and enhance light trapping, to boost the solar cell efficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a low-cost and effective technique to texture diamond-wire sawn (DWS) multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) wafers. DWS waf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456782,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456781\/revisions\/456782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}