Patent ID: 11881325
Assignee: MEDTRONIC, INC.
Field: Engines, pumps, turbines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A power converter comprising:
first and second electrodes;
a three-dimensional current collector disposed between the first and second electrodes and electrically coupled to the first electrode;
a charge carrier separator disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the three-dimensional current collector;
a hole conductor layer disposed on at least a portion of the charge carrier separator and electrically coupled to the second electrode;
a counter electrode disposed between the hole conductor layer and the second electrode and electrically coupling the hole conductor layer and the second electrode; and
nuclear radiation-emitting material disposed such that at least one nuclear radiation particle emitted by the nuclear radiation-emitting material is incident upon the charge carrier separator, wherein the nuclear radiation-emitting material is disposed in a matrix adjacent to the counter electrode such that the counter electrode is disposed between at least a portion of the nuclear radiation-emitting material and the charge carrier separator;
wherein the charge carrier separator is adapted to separate electron-hole pairs generated in the charge carrier separator by impact of the at least one nuclear radiation-emitting particle on the charge carrier separator.