A team of scientists led by Russia ’s National University of Science and Technology may have taken the first step toward developing new materials for use in solar cells . In an article published in solar Physics , the team revealed how creating a multilayered " hereostructure " , made up of molybdenum disulfide and wolframite layers , created a new kind of exciton . In addition , the researchers were able to control the exciton 's radiation energy by changing the " relative orientation of the layers " . The team realized more work needed to be done to examine the effects of thermal rotations on materials ' electronic properties .
A team of scientists led by Russia’s National University of Science and Technology may have taken the first step toward developing new materials for use in solar cells. In an article published in Nature Physics, the team revealed how creating a multilayered "hereostructure", made up of molybdenum disulfide and wolframite diselenide, created a new kind of exciton. In addition, the researchers were able to control the exciton's radiation energy by changing the "relative orientation of the layers". The team said more work needed to be done to examine the effects of layer rotations on materials' electronic properties.