Radioisotope microbattery commercialization

Polymers, Phosphors, and Voltaics for Radioisotope Microbatteries

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 441-457

  Bower, Kenneth E ^a   Rutkiewic, Andrew F ^b   Bower, Carl C ^c   Yousaf, Shahid M ^a  

^a TRACE Photonics Inc   (United States)

^b TRACE Photonics Inc   (United States)

^c TRACE Photonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; FOSSIL FUELS; MEMS; MICROELECTRONICS; MINIATURE BATTERIES; NUCLEAR BATTERIES; RADIOISOTOPES; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; REDOX REACTIONS;

DISTRIBUTED POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRIC POWER; FUEL OXIDATION; MICRO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS); ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POWER DENSITIES; RADIOISOTOPE POWER SOURCES; TEMPERATURE STABLE;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 85027030260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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