Nuclear batteries

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1994-07-29

1997-02-25

Moskowitz, Nelson

Electrical generator or motor structure

Non-dynamoelectric

Nuclear reaction

136258, H01L 3104, G21H 100

Patent

active

056062133

ABSTRACT:
A nuclear battery is provided by the incorporation through chemical bonding of radioactive tritium in a body of amorphous semiconductor material having a p-type conductivity region, an n-type conductivity region and a semiconductor junction therebetween, with means for electrically connecting the n-type and p-type regions to a load circuit. A preferred such nuclear battery comprises tritium chemically bonded within an amorphous silicon semiconductor including a p-i-n junction.

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