TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ELECTRICAL POWER AND ENERGY - Preferred Method: The catalyst is arranged in clusters. The method of generating electricity includes stimulating an overtone radiation or accelerating a reaction emission rate using an optical cavity. Preferred Components: The object is a fluid in contact with a surface of the substrate. The species includes excited state radical and an exhaust product. The overtone radiation includes multipole radiation with a change in quantum number of two or above. Preferred Device: The electricity-generating device includes a non-conducting layer (107) arranged between the substrate diode and the catalyst. A surface diode (113) is arranged on a reactant side of the catalyst to receive and capture electrons. The non-conducting layer permits control over a forward-bias and forward current characteristic of the substrate diode which raises its conduction and valence bands above a Fermi level of the catalyst to match energy levels of the adsorbed species. The surface diode comprises an indium-gallium-arsenic-antimony (InGaAsSb) containing compound semiconductor. It is a Schottky diode having a band gap larger than an energy of reactions on a catalyst surface or a barrier height of 0.05-0.4 V. The electricity-generating device has a metal layer arranged between the substrate diode and the catalyst, a coolant on the device bottom surface, electrical contacts (101, 110, 112), electrical storage device, and photovoltaic converter visible to radiation emitted by reactions involving the catalyst. The metal layer matches a catalyst lattice parameter and allows the metal and catalyst layers to be formed as quantum well. The fluid-moving device includes a wave of an acoustic, ultrasonic or gigahertz acoustic Rayleigh wave applied to the catalyst to stimulate reaction rate and synchronize the phonon emission, piezoelectric element, and optical oscillator.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Fuel: The fuel includes ethanol, methanol, or hydrogen.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Catalyst: The catalyst includes platinum, palladium, gold, silver, copper or nickel. It includes quantum well or dot having a small thickness to alter a density of electron states in the catalyst to favor the production of mono-energetic holes or electrons. It operates at a peak surface density greater than 1 W/cm2.