Solar/Radio Cell Arrays From Germanium Diodes

[stprue]

@stprue

Take the leds from last night , put a DMM on it and test in the sun ...

Led works good in the sun , but it is still cheaper to buy a solar cell.

Mark

I did not know this...very interesting!  Hey would you mind giving me the spec's for one of your higher powered JT in the JT topic ie winds/gauge/style/outputs?

Thanks

[Yucca]

I have herd of these diode arrays before but I thought that it would take hundreds of thousands to get any real usuable energy from them!

Hi sptrue

You´re thinking of PaulLawrences or CharlesBrowns diode arrays, said to produce vge from quantum noise and will work in fully shielded boxes but require many millions of junctions using nanofab to be practical.

Any PN junction will generate power in sun. For example crack the lid off any canned power tranny and use a lense to focus the sun onto the die and you can get some real useable power. You can get a few watts out of a single tranny with a good sized die.

I think there´s a thread somewhere on OU about this, perhaps someone remembers the name of it.

[Neo-X]

Very interesting topic...  I found on google that we can build a home made diode from aluminum and chromium metals. I think its a lot cheaper than buying hundreds of diodes.... Or is there commercial microchip containing diode arrays? Miniature diode perhaps?

[MarkE]

Hi sptrue

You´re thinking of PaulLawrences or CharlesBrowns diode arrays, said to produce vge from quantum noise and will work in fully shielded boxes but require many millions of junctions using nanofab to be practical.

Any PN junction will generate power in sun. For example crack the lid off any canned power tranny and use a lense to focus the sun onto the die and you can get some real useable power. You can get a few watts out of a single tranny with a good sized die.

I think there´s a thread somewhere on OU about this, perhaps someone remembers the name of it.

Charles M. Brown and Paul Lowrance both put forward the false idea that a diode that gates current flow based on voltage potential could be used to gate based on energy potential.  Brillioun disproved their faulty ideas decades before either first professed them.