Ah … another almost useless violation - it appears… but maybe not completely useless.
There does appear to be a nominal violation – somewhat reminiscent of an electret. I’m surprised they do not go there. Because the self-cycling takes place at extremely low frequencies and does not produce any effect when discharges are fast, as would be needed in a working capacitor or transistor - the actual applications for it seem to be small – other than there is the implication of very high efficiency - but not a real demonstration of it. There could be a useful temperature drop with the self-oscillation as well, which may explain the net energy balance. Quote: A subthreshold swing is demonstrated below the thermal limit in an electrochemical cell that mimics a gate-to-channel circuit cell in a FeFET, surpassing the limit imposed by dissipation energy, often designated as “Boltzmann tyranny.” Poor Boltzmann … he gets no respect … Amazing that JG is approaching 100 years. In fact he is the anomaly if there is one. From: Vibrator ! If self-oscillation is phonon-driven - and also forms the source gradient - then it's an effective 2LoT violation. Doesn't rule out an EM / ZPE source of course, but Occam would suggest that's redundant.. So, unlike Steorn's ferro-electric caps or whatever it was they were doing (foggy now)..
