YANG Yuqing WANG Guanquan HU Rui GAO Hui LIU Yebing ZHANG Huaming LUO Shunzhong. Preliminary design of an energy-conversion unit of radiation-voltaic battery[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2010, 33(3): 197-200.
YANG Yuqing WANG Guanquan HU Rui GAO Hui LIU Yebing ZHANG Huaming LUO Shunzhong. Preliminary design of an energy-conversion unit of radiation-voltaic battery[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2010, 33(3): 197-200.DOI:
Preliminary design of an energy-conversion unit of radiation-voltaic battery
Based on the principle of radiation-voltaic effect
a preliminary energy-conversion unit of radiation-voltaic battery was designed.Three energy-conversion units were manufactured and their electric I-V properties under irradiation of solid sources of 63Ni and 3H were measured.The I-V curves were analyzed and some ideas for improvement were presented.It was found that the designed energy-conversion unit deteriorated dramatically under irradiation of 241Am source.The best Uoc and Isc gained under irradiation of 2.96×108 Bq 63Ni were 0.267 V and 28.4 nA
and were 0.260 V and 62.8 nA under irradiation of a 5.09×109 Bq 3H source.Further efforts are being made to improve the design.