Thanks for posting the link. There has been work like this at Lecce for many years. I've posted this link before. http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Castellanonucleartra.pdf
Jeff On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > On 22passi, Danielle Paserini publish a paper from > INFN/Lecce/StMicro<http://www.22passi.it/coherence2012/Nuclear_transmutation_in_Pd_thin_films.pdf>about > changes (transmutation, craters...) in thin films of PdD/PdH, with > laser excitation... > > > This paper was inside the JCMNS volume5 by JP Biberian, and you quoted it > here too, but I don't remind (maybe I did not catch it)... > > What is your opinion on it... > It remind me Iwamura. > > > > NB: I've posted my small summary/extract on > lenr-forum.com<http://www.lenr-forum.com/showthread.php?907-INFN-Lecce-STMicro-Pd-H2-amp-Pd-D2-thin-films-processed-by-He-Ne-laser>... > Critics welcome about my position... > > Drew just found a > paper<http://www.22passi.it/coherence2012/Nuclear_transmutation_in_Pd_thin_films.pdf>cited > by 22passi where INFN/Uni Lecce and Dr Mastromatteo from ST >> Microelectronics. >> It was presented at >> Coherence2012<http://www.lenr-forum.com/showthread.php?p=3357#post3357> >> . >> It was also in the volume 5 of the journal of condensed matter nuclear >> science (J-P Biberian) in >> 2011<http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BiberianJPjcondensedd.pdf#page=7> >> . >> >> this paper is really interesting. >> First it is using microelectronics-style technology, ion implant, thin >> films... far from electrolysis or powder/film cooking. the Laser excitation >> is interesting... It looks high-tech, but for specialist of >> micro-electronics and nanotech it is more usual. >> >> In the paper the few results are explained as such >> >>> Different behaviors were revealed for samples kept in air, laser treated >>> and no-laser treated: so, about the samples kept in air, the film surface >>> was smooth, it looked like a mirror; instead, the samples treated and >>> no-treated by laser showed morphological modifications of the Pd-film due >>> to the gas absorption. The morphological modifications consisted in >>> formation of spots with dimension of 1-50 μm after gas loading. Fig. 4 >>> shows an example of spots on the surface of a sample of palladium >>> implanted with boron, loaded by D2 gas and not irradiated. >>> By EDX analyser, we have investigated inside the spots and we have found >>> the presence of new elements such as C, O, Ca, Fe, Al, S, Mg, K and Na. In >>> Fig. 5 an example of EDX spectrum of a Pd sample with 76 days of treatment >>> is reported. It is possible to observe the presence of many "new" elements >>> which were inexistent before the treatment. >>> >>> In addition, by He-Ne laser action, we have found a larger number of >>> spots and a larger number of new elements. Fig. 6 shows a SEM micrograph of >>> a sample processed by H2 gas and laser; Fig. 7 shows EDX spectrum obtained >>> from one spots of the sample: the new elements were: C, O, Ca, Fe, Al, S, >>> Mg, K, Na, F, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni. >>> >>> The list of the new elements is reported for every experimental case of >>> the sample >>> treatment. We can observe that the combination between H2 gas loading >>> and laser action on the treatment of the samples is very interesting in >>> order to produce many transmutation elements; nevertheless the results with >>> D2 gas loading are also not negligible about the production of new >>> elements, but there are no evident differences between laser and no laser >>> treated samples. The laser action is also very important to increase the >>> spot density on the surface of the treated samples. All new elements were >>> found inside the spots systematically but none of these seems to be >>> generated from a particular nuclear reaction between B and D2 and H2. These >>> experiments confirm the reproducibility of the transmutation phenomenon but >>> we are still far to make clarifications about the mechanisms which happened >>> inside the crystalline lattice of Pd samples. >>> >> . >> They clearly find melting of pdd, different behaviors, transmutation >> toward lighter elements than Pd... >> >> I would compare those experiment with the ones of Iwamura. >> >> in the article on >> 22passi<http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2F22passi.blogspot.fr%2F2012%2F12%2Fcoherence-2012-contributi-di-ubaldo.html%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%3A%2Bblogspot%2FGneRw%2B%28%253Cp%2Balign%253D%2522right%2522%253EVentidue%2Bpassi%2Bd%2527amore%2Be%2Bdintorni%2B%2B%2B%253C%2Fp%253E%29>, >> Danielle nicely remind the fact read from the paper: >> >>> The article in English (as pdf), at a glance, shows three facts which >>> experimentally Mastromatteo considers indisputable: >>> >>> 1. Pd immersed in the environment of H or D is the seat of energetic >>> phenomena of nuclear origin, since the material in the form of thin film >>> reaches the melting temperature, as can be seen from the pictures in the >>> electron microscope (type reactions chemical would not be able to bring >>> the >>> material to fusion in areas so small); >>> 2. the products of the reaction are all with mass number lower than >>> that of Pd, therefore, the process of nuclear fission suggests a material >>> (Pd); >>> 3. contamination of Pd prior to the tests is to be excluded by the >>> simple fact that the possible presence of the products recovered in the >>> areas examined, as a result of chemical reactions with contaminants, >>> might >>> not lead in any way to the fusion of Pd (over 1500 ° C ). >>> >>> >>> In addition, appropriate combinations of the reaction products observed >>> allow to reconstruct the mass of the various isotopes of Palladio, adding >>> any particles Alfa or He3 or other energetic particles able to explain the >>> transfer of energy to the metal lattice and the presence of Helium found by >>> various researchers in the gas inside the reaction chamber. >>> >>> >>> >>> The slide with the range and spectrum of neutrons during experiments >>> conducted in STMicroelectronics of nickel and constantan, however, shows >>> the absence of gamma radiation and neutrons in combination of small-scale >>> production of excess heat (in experiments with Palladio lasted several >>> weeks have not been used such detectors). >>> >>> >>> One last important clarification of Mastromatteo evidence with regard to >>> the Palladium in the reaction chamber : it has always been included in two >>> samples to have a differential measurement between the sample irradiated >>> with a laser and non-irradiated (in this way it was intended to eliminate >>> any artifacts handling of samples and other systematic errors). In this >>> regard, we note that the non-irradiated Deuterium sample is also home to >>> nuclear transmutations, while this is not the case for the atmosphere of >>> hydrogen. In the case of Hydrogen elements are found in greater numbers >>> than for the Deuterium and this reinforces the hypothesis of fission for >>> absorption multiple of atoms of hydrogen, deuterium and combinations >>> thereof. >>> >> The experiment clearly show very different behaviors, melting or not, >> composition change or not, while no artifact can justify that fact only in >> one condition... > > >
