{"id":133034,"date":"2021-12-24T23:24:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/betavoltaic-device"},"modified":"2021-12-24T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T07:24:07","slug":"betavoltaic-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/betavoltaic-device","title":{"rendered":"Betavoltaic device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<b>betavoltaic cell<\/b> or <b>betavoltaic battery<\/b>) is a type of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nuclear_battery\" class=\"\" title=\"Nuclear battery\">nuclear battery<\/a> which generates <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electric_current\" title=\"Electric current\">electric current<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beta_particle\" title=\"Beta particle\">beta particles<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electron\" title=\"Electron\">electrons<\/a>) emitted from a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radioactive\" class=\"\" title=\"Radioactive\">radioactive<\/a> source, using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semiconductor_junction\" class=\"\" title=\"Semiconductor junction\">semiconductor junctions<\/a>. A common source used is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hydrogen\" title=\"Hydrogen\">hydrogen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isotope\" title=\"Isotope\">isotope<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tritium\" title=\"Tritium\">tritium<\/a>. Unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator\" title=\"Radioisotope thermoelectric generator\">most nuclear power sources<\/a> which use nuclear radiation to generate heat which then is used to generate electricity, betavoltaic devices use a non-thermal conversion process, converting the electron-hole pairs produced by the ionization trail of beta particles traversing a semiconductor.<sup id= cite_ref-tr20091109_1-0 class= reference>[1]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Betavoltaic power sources (and the related technology of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atomic_battery#Alphavoltaic_conversion\" title=\"Atomic battery\">alphavoltaic<\/a> power sources<sup id= cite_ref-2 class= reference>[2]<\/sup>) are particularly well-suited to low-power electrical applications where <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Service_life\" title=\"Service life\">long life<\/a> of the energy source is needed, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Implant_(medicine)\" title=\"Implant (medicine)\">implantable medical devices<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Military\" title=\"Military\">military<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Outer_space\" title=\"Outer space\">space<\/a> applications.<sup id= cite_ref-tr20091109_1-1 class= reference>[1]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(betavoltaic cell or betavoltaic battery) is a type of nuclear battery which generates electric current from beta particles (electrons) emitted from a radioactive source, using semiconductor junctions. A common source used is the hydrogen isotope tritium. Unlike most nuclear power sources which use nuclear radiation to generate heat which then is used to generate electricity, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}