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Lead author Wei Sun of the University of Rochester holds the wafer test fixture the researchers used to test the new porous-silicon diode and its interactions with tritium gas. The diode is the dark wafer in the center of the top plate.
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This is a scanning electron micrograph of the side view of the porous-silicon wafer as tested by the researchers.
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This is a scanning electron micrograph of the top view of a porous-silicon wafer as tested by the researchers.
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