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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...