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Porous silicon made into diodes for voltaic batteries.(MATERIALS SCIENCE
Advanced Materials & Processes, July, 2005
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Some of the same manufacturing techniques that produce microchips have been applied to create a porous-silicon diode that may lead to improved betavoltaics, report researchers at BetaBatt Inc., Houston, Texas; the University of Toronto, Canada; the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and the University of Rochester, New York.
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Such devices convert low levels of radiation into electricity, and can have useful lives spanning several decades. While producing as little as one-thousandth of the power of conventional chemical batteries, the new "BetaBattery" concept ...
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