LENR Research Papers - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

Conventionally, the cold fusion reaction produces heat. (1),(2) The authors have sought a different approach, wherein the device has no input energy, relying on the energy produced by cold fusion in the device. The device consists of diodes fabricated as powder, with a large surface junction made up of a semiconductor in contact with palladium charged with deuterium. The apparent fusion reactions take place in the junction between the semiconductor and the Palladium powder, which produces an excitation which is transmitted to the electrons. This excitation increases their energy and allows them to cross the bandgap of the semiconductor and pass into the conduction band, as in a photovoltaic cell. This energy very quickly appears as a spontaneous potential difference which can reach over 0.5 volt per junction. The potential drop concentrates on the junction region, and at a nano scale the electric field reaches considerable values, higher than the megavolt per meter, which constrains the deuterium nuclei and increases the probability of deuterium fusion. (3),(4) Experimental Device Diodes comprising of a stack of junctions were made, making it possible to obtain over 1 volt at the poles of a very compact device of a few centimetres long. The power generated by the device remains very low for the moment, but it should be noted that it is in the form of directly usable electrical energy, and not thermal energy. The authors compare the density of energy obtained in their device, with the density of energy released by the first atomic pile produced by Fermi in Chicago. The levels of energy are very comparable to the fusion diode. The authors describe the various devices experimented with and used during this work over the last two years. As part of this work, an extremely sensitive calorimetry device was built. The authors present the principle of this device, as well as a project for detecting of neutrons from very weak sources. This neutron counter records the particles emitted in all the directions of space, and can be scaled to the size of the neutron source. Our concept considers that before transforming itself into heat, the energy released by fusions of the deuterium initially will produce an excitation of the atoms. It is the same thing when a photon of visible light hits a solid, initially electrons of the atoms of the solid are excited, and after this first step, the energy is decayed into heat.