Electricity from invisible light

Scientists have invented new solar cell technology. Through this, energy can also be collected from invisible light. Scientists from the ARC Center of Excellence in Exercise Science at the University of Melbourne in Australia and the University of New South Wales in Sydney have achieved this. They claim that this innovation will greatly increase the power generation capacity of solar cells. Scientists use oxygen as a special component in solar cells. This makes it possible to convert high invisible light into invisible low energy light in the human eye. As a result, it is possible to extract energy from invisible light. If this process is used, much more electricity will be generated from the same amount of sunlight than at present.
"We don't just get visible light from the sun," said researcher Tim Smith. A huge amount of low energy invisible light also reaches the earth. It contains infrared rays as well as ultraviolet rays. This technology is capable of using this invisible light. He added that the solar cell currently on the market uses charge-coupling devices, cameras and photodiodes. These are made of silicone. These cannot collect energy from light near or less than the infrared ray. This means that a part of the light remains unused. With this in mind, the invisible light of low energy is converted into visible energy of high energy, which can excite the silicon of solar panels. The new technology combines multiple low-energy photons. This forces it to go to higher energy levels. Source: Daily Mail.