Electrical generator or motor structure – Non-dynamoelectric – Nuclear reaction
Patent
1993-11-01
1995-08-08
Moskowitz, Nelson
Electrical generator or motor structure
Non-dynamoelectric
Nuclear reaction
425 5, 136202, G21H 100, H01L 3106, H01L 2120
Patent
active
054401879
ABSTRACT:
An electric battery comprises: a nuclear source of relatively high energy radiation fluence; a semiconductor junction characterized by a curve for this fluence relating minority carrier diffusion length and a damage constant and; an enclosure having a sufficiently low thermal impedance for dissipation of sufficient heat from the nuclear source to permit predetermined degradation of the minority carrier diffusion length initially and predetermined maintenance of the minority carrier diffusion length thereafter; the nuclear source being a radionuclide selected from the class consisting of alpha, gamma and beta emitters; and the curve being substantially logarithmic.
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Little Roger G.
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