Isotope detecting devices
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsPaul Howard Mazurkiewicz, Ning Ge, Helen A Holder
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Abstract
A device for detecting isotopes includes an isotope portion including a material including an isotope of an element, a reaction control portion to cause a chemical reaction of the material, and an electrical parameter portion to measure a change in an electrical parameter of the material, where the change in the electrical parameter is caused by the chemical reaction, and where the change in the electrical parameter is dependent on the isotope in the material, to detect the isotope by comparing the change in the electrical parameter of the material with a known electrical parameter associated with a known isotope.
Claims11
A device, comprising:
- an isotope portion including a material comprising an isotope of an element;
- a reaction control portion to cause a chemical reaction of the material;
- and
- an electrical parameter portion to measure a change in an electrical parameter of the material, wherein the change in the electrical parameter is caused by the chemical reaction, and wherein the change in the electrical parameter is dependent on the isotope in the material, to detect the isotope by comparing the change in the electrical parameter of the material with a known electrical parameter associated with a known isotope.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a computing system, the computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:
- cause a chemical reaction of a material including an isotope of an element;
- measure a change in an electrical parameter of the material, wherein the change in the electrical parameter is caused by the chemical reaction, and wherein the change in the electrical parameter is dependent on the isotope in the material;
- and
- detect the isotope by comparing the change in the electrical parameter with a known electrical parameter associated with a known isotope.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.