A portable power supply according to the present invention is provided with a combustion device (20) and a heating container (30) that retains an object to be heated, wherein at least a part of a portion of the heating container, the portion being directly heated by the combustion device, is provided with a magnetic metal plate (32) that has spontaneous magnetization and that generates electromotive force due to an anomalous Nernst effect induced by the heating, and wherein electrodes (33a, 33b) for drawing power are provided. Thus, the heating container for generating electricity has a simple configuration, and furthermore the portable power supply is provided with both the heating container and the combustion device.

A microbolometer device integrated with CMOS and BiCMOS technologies and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a microbolometer unit cell, comprises damaging a portion of a substrate to form a damaged region. The method further includes forming infrared (IR) absorbing material on the damaged region. The method further includes isolating the IR absorbing material by forming a cavity underneath the IR absorbing material.

A tunnel-effect power converter including first and second electrodes having opposite surfaces, wherein the first electrode includes protrusions extending towards the second electrode.

A method of making a variable emittance window comprising providing a metal foil substrate, applying an antireflection material layer onto the metal foil substrate, applying a protection material layer onto the antireflection material layer, applying a variable emittance material layer onto the protection material layer, annealing to form a two-step variable emittance layer, applying a transparent low emittance material layer to the two-step variable emittance layer, adhering a transparent substrate to the transparent low emittance material layer, and removing the metal foil substrate.

Embodiments relate to a method in which electrical energy is supplied to a heat generating source to convert the electrical energy to heat. A thermal energy harvesting thermionic device proximal to the heat generating source to receive the heat from the heat generating source is heated and an electrical output is generated. The thermal energy harvesting thermionic device includes at least a cathode, an anode spaced from the cathode to provide an inter-electrode gap between the cathode and the anode, and a plurality of nanoparticles suspended in a fluid medium contained in the inter-electrode gap. The temperature of the thermal energy harvesting thermionic device is monitored, and a source of the electrical energy is activated to supply the electrical energy to the heat generating source in response to a change in the temperature of the thermal energy harvesting thermionic device. Also provided are related apparatus.

An optical sensor includes a support layer, a thermoelectric conversion material portion disposed on the support layer and including a strip-shaped first material layer that converts thermal energy into electrical energy and a strip-shaped second material layer that is electrically conductive, and a light absorbing film disposed on the thermoelectric conversion material portion to form a temperature difference in a longitudinal direction of the first material layer. The first material layer includes a first region and a second region. The second material layer includes a third region and a fourth region connected to the second region. The optical sensor further includes a first electrode electrically connected to the first region, and a second electrode disposed apart from the first electrode and electrically connected to the third region. The first material layer has a width, perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, of 0.1 μm or more.

Provided is a thermoelectric conversion element having a high Anomalous Nernst Effect at a lower cost. A thermoelectric conversion element (1) includes a magnetic alloy material containing aluminum, cobalt, and samarium, and a power generation layer (10), in which in the power generation layer (10), a content of aluminum in the magnetic alloy material is in a range of 1 atomic percent to 40 atomic percent, a content of samarium in the magnetic alloy material is in a range of 12 atomic percent to 40 atomic percent, and a content of cobalt in the magnetic alloy material is in a range of 57 atomic percent to 82 atomic percent.

A thermoelectric cell includes a thermoelectric body including heat-utilizing power generating elements in each of which a thermoelectric conversion layer and a solid electrolyte layer are layered, a conductive case including a first case body and a second case body and accommodating the thermoelectric body, an insulating member electrically insulating the first case body or the second case body or the second case body and the solid electrolyte layer on a side surface of the thermoelectric body while electrically insulating the first case body and the second case body, and a compressible conductor accommodated in the case and disposed between the thermoelectric body and the case. The first case body, the thermoelectric body, and the second case body are electrically connected in a stacked direction by disposing the compressible conductor on a side of at least one of the first case body and the second case body.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor integrated circuit device with an electric power generation function, which can prevent the circuit board from increasing in size.

MEANS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM: A semiconductor integrated circuit device 200 with an electric power generation function has a semiconductor integrated circuit device and a thermoelectric element 1. The semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a package 210 to house a semiconductor integrated circuit chip 230. The semiconductor integrated circuit chip 230 has a lower surface opposing the circuit board and an upper surface opposing the mounting surface. The thermoelectric element 1 includes a casing unit having a housing unit, a first electrode unit provided inside the housing unit, a second electrode unit provided inside the housing unit, separated from and opposing the first electrode unit in the first direction, and having a work function different from that of the first electrode unit, and a middle unit provided between the first electrode unit and the second electrode unit, and including a nanoparticle having a work function between the work function of the first electrode unit and the work function of the second electrode unit, in the housing unit. The casing unit is provided inside a circuit board 260.

A product includes an array of cold spray-formed structures. Each of the structures is characterized by having a defined feature size in at least one dimension of less than 100 microns as measured in a plane of deposition of the structure, at least 90% of a theoretical density of a raw material from which the structure is formed, and essentially the same functional properties as the raw material. A product includes a cold spray-formed structure characterized by having a defined feature size in at least one dimension of less than 100 microns as measured in a plane of deposition of the structure, at least 90% of a theoretical density of a raw material from which the structure is formed, and essentially the same functional properties as the raw material.