Bob Higgins--
I agree with your evaluation of STM. I bought STM stock about a year ago as a
speculation in LENR.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Higgins
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2015 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry
Having worked with STM in the past, I can tell you they are a high quality,
high volume IC design and manufacturing company. I believe their primary
interest is for self-powered ICs. I believe they are interested in LENR at a
micron scale as block to put on future ICs for electrical power. Already some
of their ICs only draw fractions of a microwatt, so it wouldn't take much to
power one. They already make MEMS which could be part of a LENR to electrical
conversion system on chip.
Bob
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
I doubt that STM could have obtained effective IP coverage, based on the
very loose specifications in the wording of their document, unless they have
added something at a later date.
If they intended to use microlithography techniques for facilitating the
formation of SPP layers, and they could have done that – then they would need
to be very specific and lay it out, step by step. I did a quick search of the
document looking for “SPP” or “surface plasmon” and nothing turned up.
The USPTO demands very precise specifications these days. This filing is
practically worthless in the USA, in being overly broad and obvious.
From: Nick
Does this have anything to do with this topic?
http://www.e-catworld.com/2013/09/23/st-microelectronics-files-lenr-patent/
ST Microelectronics patent, (US20130243143),
From the Patent;
These technologies may include, in particular, deposition techniques and
photolithographic techniques currently in use in microelectronics and for MEMS
devices. The deposition techniques, such as, for example, sputtering and CVD
(Chemical Vapor Deposition), allow the deposition of metals of various types of
various materials, mainly semiconductors, for example, to form heaters and
resistors, in the form of very thin layers, also of nanometric sizes, having a
thickness controlled in a very precise way, thus obtaining a savings in the
amount of metal used. This saving turns out to be relevant, especially in a
large scale production, considering the generally high costs of the suitable
metals that can be used, and, in particular, the high costs of some of them
(for example, platinum). With the photolitographic techniques, it may be
instead possible to define the geometry on the plane of the thin metal layers
deposited in a very precise way.
Nixter
Jones Beene wrote:
The “dogbone” seems like a relatively simple reactor, but it could be
rather complex in operation if it depends on SPP formation and positive
feedback. SPP would be expected to form in two main places – the interface of
the resistance wire with ceramic outside the tube, or also on the interior wall
of the tube – but only if that wall is electrically conductive AND is carrying
current - in the presence of photon flux from the heating wire. (The current
would be AC, induced from the resistance wire). In fact, the outer location
could be powering the interior location with SPP and each having positive
feedback to the other.
The role of lithium-aluminum (besides being the hydrogen source, as a
hydride) could be twofold, in the Parkhomov reactor. It could be a nuclear
reactant, but proof of that awaits isotope analysis. It could also be the
needed electrical conductor – if it is deposited in the correct thickness.
In short, there could be evidence of nuclear reactions of lithium and
hydrogen - or not. In hot fusion, it is known that hydrogen (as opposed to
deuterium) does not readily react with lithium, and that would suggest that
lithium would play the other critical role.
That critical role would be as a conductive thin film (deposited as an
alloy with aluminum) on the interior wall of the tube. The high vapor pressure
of molten LiAl alloy suggests that it could be deposited correctly in thickness
of tens of nm. It that is true, then the main function of lithium alloy could
be to promote the Kretschmann geometry for SPP optimization. The Kretschmann
geometry requires a thin film of conductor which will transmit light. A
thickness of 50 nm works for gold.
http://www.doctorlighthouse.com/kretschmanngeome.html
This could be a reason why adding more LiAlH4 (more than 1/10 gram) could
be counterproductive and probably would quench the reaction.
There is enough hydrogen in the tenth gram to provide about a megawatt-hour
of thermal energy when it is reduced to the DDL so we do not need more
hydrogen. And if SPP is the mechanism that reduces hydrogen to DDL, then we do
not need more lithium aluminum - since the deposit would be too thick.
Prediction for Parkhomov: if a more sensitive GM meter can be obtained to
look for soft x-rays in the range of 3.6 keV – they will be found. The normal
meter will miss this radiation spectrum.
