"Smoking Gun" - finally!

[tinu]

Hello pix,


you should read the following Aspden-Paper on the Nerst-Effect :

http://www.aspden.org/reports/Es3/

Best Regrards

Kator01

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nernst_effect
"Semiconductors exhibit the Nernst effect. This has been studied in the 1950s by Krylova, Mochan and many others. In metals however, it is almost non-existent. "

Aspden: "... in steel as much as 16.6 volts could be set up by a temperature gradient of one degree C per cm if the magnetic field strength was 10,000 gauss."

One of the two above does not hold water.
Place your bets, pls. 

Cheers,
Tinu

[Trino Cularoid]

They didn't want to do it, and gave no reason,

Maybe they are concerned about the yield. For example, in a PowerMOSFET, you have everything in parallel and a few broken ones don't matter that much (this can be a trap if many FETs are broken and it appears to be OK if tested without full load). Since everything is in series, there must be an efficient way to test and short out broken diodes.

[PaulLowrance]

I don't know. They wouldn't tell me via email.

In-parallel has an equal problem of short. If one of the diodes in-parallel is shorted then the whole thing is useless. If one is shorted in-series then it's no big deal.

I would like a few hundred first in-series, and then place groups of those in parallel.

PL

[mscoffman]

I think this is a great idea. One difficulty that normal semiconductor guys will have with it
is that one is going to have to optimize the semiconductor structure in a way *opposite* for
normal semiconductor process. There may be fears of setting up a conflict of knowledge.

The other thing I think, one should do is build in energy self limiting circuit structures inside, to prevent
things from burning up when accidental exposed to large amount of power in a beam. Like X-ray or
Cell-phones. Possibly by having an external energy dump resistor. That way one would not
have to build a physical isolation chamber to keep the device within spec in event of
an accidental exposure. Those power specs are everything that is important...it is not
absolute device power that is important to making the device a commercial success.

:S:MarkSCoffman

[broli]

You should definitely invite Z-monkey in here as he has a lot of work experience in semi conductors and might have some useful connections.