Patent ID: 7067293

Claim:
A method of making a hybrid photoactive device, comprising: (a) providing photosynthetic chlorosome-containing bacteria Chloroflexus aurantiacus; (b) extracting the RC − chlorosomes from the bacteria; (c) providing a photoactive semiconductor; and (d) locating the RC − chlorosomes proximate a light receiving surface of the photoactive semiconductor, wherein step (c) includes providing a photoactive semiconductor having a light response that is diminished at a first range of light wavelengths, and step (a) comprises choosing an RC − chlorosome having (i) light response that is enhanced at a second range of light wavelengths that coincides, at least in part, with the first range of light wavelengths, and (ii) light emission outside the first range of light wavelengths, and wherein choosing an RC − chlorosome comprises force adapting bacteria with chlorosomes with the light response enhanced at the second range of light wavelengths and light emission outside the first range.