Nuclear batteries using tritium and thin film hydrogenated amorphous silicon

Fusion Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 700-703

  Kosteski, Tome ^a   Kherani, Nazir P ^a   Shmayda, Walter T ^b   Costea, Stefan ^a   Zukotynski, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; HOLE MOBILITY; HYDROGENATION; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; THIN FILMS; TRITIUM;

DANGLING BONDS; ELECTRON-HOLE PAIRS; GAS FRACTION; INTERNAL SOURCE;

NUCLEAR BATTERIES;

EID: 23044479332     PISSN: 15361055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST05-A1020     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. P. RAPPAPORT, J.J. LOFERSKI and E.G. LINDER, "The electron-voltaic effect in germanium and silicon p-n junctions," RCA Review, 17, 100 (1956).
2. L.C. OLSEN, "Betavoltaic Energy Conversion," Energy Conversion, 13, 117 (1973).
3. R.A. STREET, Technology and Applications of Amorphous Silicon, Springer, Berlin (2000).
4. N.P. KHERANI, T. KOSTESKI, S. ZUKOTYNSKI, W.T. SHMAYDA, "Tritiated amorphous silicon for micropower applications", Fusion Technol., 28(3), 1609 (1995).
5. M. HARRY and S. ZUKOTYNSKI, "The use of a direct current saddle-field plasma for the deposition of hydrogenated amorphous silicon," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 9, 496 (1991).
6. T. KOSTESKI, N.P. KHERANI, P. STRADINS, F. GASPARI, W.T. SHMAYDA, L.S. SIDHU, and S. ZUKOTYNSKI, "Tritiated amorphous silicon betavoltaics," IEE Pro.-Circuits Devices Syst., 150, 274 (2003).
7. L.S. SIDHU, T. KOSTESKI, N.P. KHERANI, F.GASPARI, S. ZUKOTYNSKI, and W.T. SHMAYDA, "An infrared and luminescence study of tritiated amorphous silicon", MAT. RES. SOC. SYMP. PROC., 467, 129 (1997).
8. W. BEYER, "Hydrogen effusion: a probe for surface desorption and diffusion," Physica B, 170, 105 (1991).
9. L.A. HAMEL, J. DUBEAU, T. POCHET, and B. EQUER, "Signal formation in a-Si:H particle detectors," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 38, 251 (1991).
10. CARLOS A. COLMENARES, "Bakeable ionization chamber for low-level tritium counting," Nuclear Instruments and Methods, 114, 269 (1974).
11. L.S. SIDHU, T. KOSTESKI, S. ZUKOTYNSKI, N.P. KHERANI, and W.T. SHMAYDA, "Effect of dangling-bond density on luminescence in tritiated amorphous silicon," Appl. Phys. Lett., 74, 3975 (1999).
12. KENNETH R. LORD II, MICHAEL R. WALTERS, and JAMES R. WOODYARD, "Investigation of the stability and 1.0 MeV proton radiation resistance of commercially produced hydrogenated amorphous silicon alloy solar cells," Proceedings of the XIII Space Photovoltaic Research and Technology Conference (SPRAT XIII), Cleveland Ohio, 187 (1994).