Lin 's team has now come up with an alternative using quantum dots light-sensitive , semiconducting particles just a few nanometres in diameter .
lin的团队现在想出了另一个选择:运用量子点直径仅几个纳米的光敏感的半导体颗粒。
Most photovoltaic cells , such as those used in rooftop solar panels , use the semiconducting material silicon to convert the energy from photons of light to electricity .
大多数光电伏打电池,比如那些用在屋顶的太阳能电池板,利用半导体材料硅转化阳光中的光能为电能。
This actually produces a mixture of two different sorts : ones that have metal-like properties and ones that are semiconducting .
这个过程实际上产生了两个不同种类的混合物:一类有金属般的属性,另一类则有半导体特性的属性。
You can use a panel of solar cells to create the current directly , by liberating electrons from a semiconducting material such as silicon .
你能够使用太阳能电池板直接获取电流,它是通过从像硅这样的半导体材料释放电子而实现的。
The cost of the glassy photovoltaic panels that generate most solar electricity-by freeing electrons from a semiconducting material such as silicon-is plummeting .
利用太阳能大量发电的玻璃光伏电池板(通过从像硅一样的半导体材料中释放电子而发电)的价格急剧下降。
The artificial leaf is a thin sheet of semiconducting silicon - the material most solar cells are made of - which turns the energy of sunlight into a flow of wireless electricity within the sheet .
Melosh 's group figured out that by coating a piece of semiconducting material with a thin layer of the metal cesium , it made the material able to use both light and heat to generate electricity .