# Stimulation experiments — section 6

## NanoTI: rapid heating on a chip
Pages: Pressure report · pp. 130–143

Combined a platinum heater and thermometer with a palladium target. The campaign tested more than 448 devices over more than 1.5 million pulses, including experiments above 450,000 psi and heating to melting. No anomalous heat was established.

## Pillars-on-Pads
Pages: Pressure report · pp. 144–150

Used microfabricated structures to combine stimulation with a search for localized damage in loaded material.

## Heat-Pad chips
Pages: Pressure report · pp. 150–159

Developed chip-based thermal stimulation experiments and examined the samples for evidence of a localized event.

## Intense electric fields
Pages: Pressure report · pp. 161–164

Microfabricated palladium–insulator–gold devices tested electric fields up to 7.7 MV/cm and frequencies up to 1 MHz, with both polarities. Electrical-breakdown damage also occurred in hydrogen controls; no deuterium-specific effect was observed.

## Single pulses and shaped pulse trains
Pages: Pressure report · pp. 165–172

Developed ultrashort laser pulses and shaped pulse trains to stimulate loaded samples on timescales faster than atomic motion.

## Transient reflectivity
Pages: Pressure report · pp. 172–181

Used a delayed laser probe to follow the response after stimulation. Measuring through an adjacent gold layer distinguished the apparent deuterium enhancement from differences in palladium’s optical response.

## Laser-stimulated films and nanostructures
Pages: Pressure report · pp. 181–185

Tested loaded films and nanostructures with laser stimulation, including experiments above 400 ksi. Microscopy searched for event-like damage.

## Terahertz resonators
Pages: Pressure report · pp. 196–204

Developed intense terahertz pulses and microscopic resonators to excite vibrations in loaded palladium. Metallic screening limited coupling to the intended vibrations; the campaign did not establish LENR.