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That's very cool! Can you say more about it or is there a project web site? Trying to replicate inventions from the patent filings must be incredibly difficult.
by owyn 3y ago
That's very cool! Can you say more about it or is there a project web site? Trying to replicate inventions from the patent filings must be incredibly difficult. They are primarily legal documents and not technical documents, unfortunately. I feel like you shouldn't be able to get a patent unless you submit full building plans. I don't think software patents are a good idea but if you had to open source the code in exchange for a license, that also seems like an acceptable tradeoff.
- mglz 3y agoI mostly based my experiment on this website [1]. There's no documentation about it yet, bust basically I alloyed zinc and antimony in a crucible at 700°C and splat-cooled it (pour onto a steel surface and squish the cooling metal with a copper block). The resulting disk is quite brittle. I mounted it in a improvised clamp, between a copper and german silver electrode. No diode behaviour could be measured. I think my backyard metallurgy is not very precise though. Also, my current way of holding the sample might be all kinds of bad. So some more messing around is needed [1] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-solar-panel https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/10/how-to-build-a-low...