Since 2009, the Micro-Nano Facility division of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler carried on a fruitful scientific collaboration with the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) Institute placed in Prague, Czech Republic. ELI is a Pan European consortium working on the realization of the most intense laser facilities in the world for several scientific applications, going from the laser-driven particles acceleration to the study of the matter in the extreme conditions for astrophysical tasks, passing to the study of new possible source of energy by means the injection of fusion reaction driven by laser pulse. In this framework the Micro-Nano Facility of FBK, exploited its capabilities (clean room laboratories) on the microelectronics technology processes. The application was focused on the creation of particular silicon targets doped by hydrogen and boron atoms at higher concentrations, to inject a special nuclear fusion reaction called proton-boron fusion that is considered “almost clean”. Among the reaction products, no relevant gamma rays emission or neutrons emission are detected. In this last case, in fact, the only reaction products are three alpha particles with 8.7 MeV of kinetic energy and at the moment, our joint group maintain the record of alpha yield emission of about 1010/sr.
