METHOD OF DOUBLE-STAGE CONVERSION OF ENERGY OF IONISING RADIATION INTO ELECTRIC ENERGY Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC G21H1/06 

FIELD: power engineering.

SUBSTANCE: use of dissociated gas is provided, as well as conversion of ultraviolet radiation into electric energy with the help of a semiconductor diamond. A source of alpha radiation emits alpha particles, which in dissociated gas are converted into ultraviolet radiation. On the way of ultraviolet radiation there is a synthetic semiconductor diamond of p-type with a Schottky contact and ohmic contact so that ultraviolet radiation fully or partially gets onto a semiconductor base element-converter on the basis of the synthetic diamond. At the same time electric current is taken from contacts with the help of conductors and is transmitted to a load.

EFFECT: exclusion of a complex multi-stage scheme of manufacturing of a semiconductor structure with the possibility of using only low-energy beta sources, increased electrophysical characteristics of ionising radiation energy conversion of different types in a wide range of energies into electric energy.

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