Mitsubishi Reports Toyota Replication [of Iwamura's LENR transmutation of elements]

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[Vo]:INFN/Stmicro paper: Modification of Pd-H2 and Pd-D2 thin films processed by He-Ne laser...
Alain SepedaWed, 19 Dec 2012 07:06:13 -0800
Hi,
On 22passi, Danielle Paserini publish a paper from
INFN/Lecce/StMicroabout
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...
Critics welcome about my position...

Drew just found a
papercited
by 22passi where INFN/Uni Lecce and Dr Mastromatteo from ST
> Microelectronics.
> It was presented at
> Coherence2012
> .
> It was also in the volume 5 of the journal of condensed matter nuclear
> science (J-P Biberian) in
> 2011
> .
>
> 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,
> 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...

"I have seen no credible evidence or data indicating that a plasma state occurs in a LOW ENERGY Nuclear Reaction. Until you can point me to such (replicated) experimental results and data, you are correct: I do not "understand" that "the plasma from the anomalous heat event generates nuclear events" -- because it ain't been shown (to me) to be so!"

Actually, there are a couple of types of LENR that use plasmas.

One is a glow-discharge in deuterium with a palladium cathode (I don't immediately recall if the same experiments have been done using hydrogen and nickel).

The other is an arc struck and "working" in liquid D2O. I've seen that one with both palladium and with tungsten "needles". Although these both involve plasmas, the energy of the plasma is still far below that needed for "standard high-temp" fusion, yet still give indications that "nuclear things" are going on..

Some LENR researchers lump these together with sonofusion and call them "luke-warm fusion".

I believe these have mostly been investigated by Russian researchers, and thus are less well known than the Pons/Fleischmann electrochemically loaded or Arata-type gas loaded approaches, which involve no plasma on a macro scale......who knows what happens in the micro scale.

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