mrjerry, further down in that same, very long page, in a large mix of conversations: same poster (HNCadet) responded again, to poster SiO2
Si02,
After a quick search it is the same person and the partner Carl Nelson was also involved AND the Barium Titanate was an outgrowth of a magnetic storage medium they were touting to startup a verticle recording medium in the late '80's. That deal fell thru when GMR technology quadurpled storage densities of standard longitudinal recording systems. It's interesting that they kept working with the material until they found a market for it!! A newly invented Verticle recording today uses a sputtered metallic medium instead of particulate Barium Titanate. The actual particle manufacturer might be a better play than the battery user.......I recall that Pfizer was the manufacturer of all Magnetic recording Oxides back in the day..don't know if they still do? Other companies were all Japanese(surprised?).
Posted by: HNCadet at June 27, 2008 11:56 AM
Seems Weir and Nelson have been trying to make something out of barium titanate, for quite a long time?
Maybe they finally found it?
Maybe not?
My theory is that these computer guys were trying to find a way to make tiny, cheap non-volatile memory bits. But ended up figuring out how to store electrical energy in big fat "memory" cells, so to speak.
Does Quantum Tunneling make this ceramic battery work???
