2026-10-04 Google Patents - Popa-Simil
Access: in Chrome, Google Patents search pages and patent pages returned no extractable text (they render as a JS app; no CAPTCHA). The inventor:Popa-Simil search showed only one result, Victor Popa-Simil's US9984586B2 (flight training; not related). As a fallback, the patent pages were fetched with curl and parsed, and the PDFs were downloaded from patentimages.storage.googleapis.com.
Liviu Popa-Simil filings found (inventor's own work, priority 1)
| Number | Title | Filed | Status (Google Patents) | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US20100061503A1 (appl. US12/384,074) | Pseudo-capacitor structure for direct nuclear energy conversion | 2009-03-31; continuation of US11/603,812 filed 2006-11-21 | Abandoned | files/US20100061503A1.pdf (43 pp.) |
| US20130121449A1 (appl. US13/297,243) | Method and device for direct nuclear energy conversion in electricity in fusion and transmutation processes | 2011-11-15 | Abandoned | files/US20130121449A1.pdf (54 pp.) |
| US8067758B2 (appl. US12/157,827; pre-grant US20110001065A1) | Nano-structured nuclear radiation shielding (with Claudiu Iulian Muntele) | 2008-06-13 (priority 2007-06-13); granted 2011-11-29 | Expired - fee related | files/US8067758B2.pdf (30 pp.) |
| US20120082283A1 | Method of using micro-nano-hetro structures to make radiation detection systems and devices with applications | 2010-09-30 | not checked | not downloaded |
[web] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100061503A1/en, https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130121449A1/en, https://patents.google.com/patent/US8067758B2/en
Not yet found: the record of the parent application US11/603,812 (2006), and any foreign family members (none were seen on these pages). Next run: check USPTO Patent Center or Espacenet for US11/603,812 and for WO/EP equivalents.
US20100061503A1 - what it adds to the 2007 paper [read: files/US20100061503A1.pdf, text layer]
- Abstract: the device is "based on nano-hetero-structures" made of "a repeated customized sequence of nano-layers generically called 'CIci'". It relies on a "knock on electron avalanche" from the high-electron-density conductor "C" that "tunnels through insulator 'I' and accumulates in the low density conductor 'c'". It extends CIci to nanoplasmon, nanowire and nanotube forms, and to a "radiation switched thermo-electric" effect.
- The inventor states plainly what the 84% figure is. Para. 0121: "The calculated efficiency of 84% is simply the efficiency of ionization energy stopped in the 'C' layer." He adds that a true figure "has to be obtained by experimental buildup, using the methodology described at FIG. 8", and that the 84% "remains upper conversion efficiency estimator ... only because it did not includes the rest of the aspects in the device". This bears on claim 1 (>80% efficiency): in the inventor's own words it is an upper bound from the share of stopping energy, not a measured conversion efficiency.
- Para. 0120: estimated total thickness for stopping 5 MeV alphas is "about 20 microns", and stopped He must be able to diffuse out.
- Para. 0125 area: an example is "26.7 pW that supposing is harvested at 10 mV" (a radioisotope battery example). This bears on claim 4 (mV-level modules).
- Paras. 0156-0162 (FIG. 15): a planned "Nano-cluster plasmonic structure beam test setup". It uses accelerated ion beams instead of radioactive sources, an Au "C" layer, an ammeter on the beam current and a meter on the harvested current, with "differential measurement between the input beam and total beam stopped". This is a described test design. No measured results were found in the text searched (grep for "measur", "experiment", "test").
- Para. 0075 onward covers the breakdown-voltage limit of the insulator and series versus parallel connection (bears on claim 4).
US20130121449A1 [read: abstract]
It extends the concept to fusion or transmutation inside a "super-capacitor" nanostructure. The abstract invokes "nuclear entanglement and quantum non-localities" to control the reaction rate. This links the CIci harvester to Popa-Simil's later LENR (low-energy nuclear reaction) work; see 2026-10-04-lenr-canr.md.
Later patents of others that cite these filings (forward citations; leads for related work, priority 3)
From the "cited by" and family-to-family tables: US10699820B2 (three-dimensional radioisotope battery), FR3018946A1 (électricité par transmutations), CN106340684A (a quantum battery), CN110462747A, JP2022551664A (LENR control method), WO2011011504A1 (Colorado School of Mines nuclear battery, 2009), and a JP nuclear-battery assembly. Not yet read.