Heat conversion by using piezzo effect

[TechStuf]

Interesting.....supposedly the Kowsky-Frost discovery was made while studying the PE effect....using, I believe, microphone piezos.

http://www.keelynet.com/gravity/KFrost.htm

http://www.main.org/polycosmos/gravhack/gravity.htm

http://www.rense.com/general54/babalc.htm

I find it interesting the Quartz and Gold are almost always found together in nature.


Peace,

TS out

[Charlie Brown ARN]

I slogged through google to get an idea of electret voltage and got 1/10 V / micrometer. This is not a solid number. Only a little boosting in the lowering the barrier voltage is possible because the increased conductivity of the junction reduces the effect of the electret. Electret embedding of the opposite polarity may be useful in thernovoltaic cells to help pull the electron / hole pairs apart and reduce their premature recombining .

Aloha, Charlie

[swankpower]

yes this idea was also in my "idea closet" for years... I thought of some ways to use piezos as diaphragms to make the motion less chaotic, so that it pulses many of these micro piezos at once...

my e-mail address is: a m m e n a r d @ u h . e d u
This has been my think hole for this past semester, and I am anxious to hear some more of the ideas you have.

Andrew Menard

[Kysmett]

Even if It gives only .1 V, that is a 33% reduction in GaAs Diodes, bringing the threshold voltage down to .2V if I am not mistaken.  Not neseccarily something to be abandoned.

[Charlie Brown ARN]

The pillars can be longer, first coated with an insulator, then a conductive sleeve folded back and covered with another insulator to give a higher voltage at the gap filled with the semiconductor. Maybe the structure is so large that one complex pillar surrounded by annular semiconductor would be used. This is ugly but perhaps interesting. 

Maybe deep oppositely charged doping where trapped ions would polarize the lattice behind the active dopants would do the same thing if the mobile charge carrier partners involved can be induced to work in a desirable way. 

Can advanced devices be based on InSb?

Aloha, Charlie