<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Research done on a set of simple fluidic (with the fluid used as the ionized medium being air under atmospheric pressure) alphavoltaic cells – small ionizing reactors or “nuclear batteries”, designed in the Faculty of Power and Aerospace Engineering of Warsaw University of Technology, Poland – has shown the possibility of accumulation of usable amount of electric charge. Two simple methods are proposed to describe the fluidic alphavoltaic cells in terms of their efficiency. The results of these methods are presented and compared with the efficiencies of other contemporary types of solid-body (semiconductor junction-based) alpha- and betavoltaic cells. The comparison showed that despite the far-reaching simplicity in design, the designed fluidic cells are still more efficient than some of the solid-body devices that use the alpha type of decay.</p></abstract>

Research done on a set of simple fluidic (with the fluid used as the ionized medium being air under atmospheric pressure) alphavoltaic cells – small ionizing reactors or “nuclear batteries”, designed in the Faculty of Power and Aerospace Engineering of Warsaw University of Technology, Poland – has shown the possibility of accumulation of usable amount of electric charge. Two simple methods are proposed to describe the fluidic alphavoltaic cells in terms of their efficiency. The results of these methods are presented and compared with the efficiencies of other contemporary types of solid-body (semiconductor junction-based) alpha- and betavoltaic cells. The comparison showed that despite the far-reaching simplicity in design, the designed fluidic cells are still more efficient than some of the solid-body devices that use the alpha type of decay.

Efficiency calculation and comparison of fluidic and solid-body power sources using corpuscular radiation

Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology

Nukleonika

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Research done on a set of simple fluidic (with the fluid used as the ionized medium being air under atmospheric pressure) alphavoltaic cells – small ionizing...

Efficiency calculation and comparison of fluidic and solid-body power sources using corpuscular radiation

Published Online: Mar 20, 2020

Page range: 31 - 35

Received: Aug 28, 2018

Accepted: Jan 16, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nuka-2020-0004

Keywords
Alphavoltaic, Nuclear battery, Radioactivity, Ionizing reactor, Plutonium-239, Americium-241

© 2020 Tomasz A. Miś, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Efficiency calculation and comparison of fluidic and solid-body power sources using corpuscular radiation

Published Online: Mar 20, 2020

Page range: 31 - 35

Received: Aug 28, 2018

Accepted: Jan 16, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nuka-2020-0004

KeywordsAlphavoltaic, Nuclear battery, Radioactivity, Ionizing reactor, Plutonium-239, Americium-241

© 2020 Tomasz A. Miś, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Alphavoltaic, Nuclear battery, Radioactivity, Ionizing reactor, Plutonium-239, Americium-241