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First Ever Circuit Powered By Light

Chaitali Dessai, 3rd SEM, PCH no:258, and Snehal Kulkarni, 3rd SEM, PCH no:30
Category: Electrical , GIT college
products.
Abstract--. Mechatronics is the combination of mechanical
engineering, electrical engineering, computer engineering,
control engineering and system design engineering to create
useful products.
It has vast amount of applications in every field but we need to
emphasize on the technology which is not only useful but also be
green, as todays world is facing many problems like global
warming and pollution. Biggest problem is the amount of
electricity needed is increasing day by day so to solve that
problem one of its application is a circuit powered by light.
The circuit is recently been created in month of Feb. It is a circuit
that can power itself as long as its left in a beam of light...
Right now the creators can only coax minuscule amount of
electricity from their photovoltaic circuit, far too little to power
consumer electrical devices, although these amounts would
quickly skyrocket in some time

Index Terms-- Green Technology, Mechatronics, Solar powered

circuit.

Fig. 1. Diagram representing the overlapping areas

The energy challenge:

I. INTRODUCTION
Mechatronics is the combination of mechanical engineering,
electrical engineering, computer engineering, control
engineering and system design engineering to create useful

Chaitali Dessai , Udyambag , G . I . T , Belgaum

cnaikdessai@yahoo.com,
USN: 2GI09EE026
Mob no: 8123499312
PCH no:258
Snehal Kulkarni , Angol ,Tilakwadi ,Belgaum
Sk40930@gmail.com,
USN:2GI09EE060
Mob no:9740825609
PCH no: 30

The world now uses energy at a rate of approximately 4.1

1020 joules/yr, equivalent to a
Continuous power consumption of 13 trillion watts, or 13
terawatts (TW). Even with aggressive
Conservation and energy efficiency measures, an increase of
the Earths population to 9 billion
People, accompanied by rapid technology development and
economic growth world-wide, is
Projected to produce more than double the demand for energy
(to 30 TW) by 2050, and more
Than triple the demand (to 46 TW) by the end of the century.
The reserves of fossil fuels that
Currently power society will fall short of this demand over the
long term, and their continued use
Produces harmful side effects such as pollution that threatens
human health and greenhouse
Gases associated with climate change. Alternative renewable
fuels are at present far from
competitive with fossil fuels in cost and production capacity.
Without viable options for
supplying double or triple todays energy use, the worlds
economic, technological, and political

horizons will be severely limited.

damage or deplete the Earth's natural resources. In addition to

not depleting natural resources, green technology is meant as
an alternative source of technology that reduces fossile fuels
and demonstrates less damage to human, animal, and plant
health, as well as damage to the world, in general. Next, green
technology is so that products can be re- used and recycled.
The use of green technology (clean technology) is supposed to
reduce the amount of waste and pollution that is created
during production and consumption

Fig. 2. Graph of PJ energy versus potential

A. What Is Green Technology ?

Green is the way to go, so since we're in the age of

technology, why not go green?
In order to go with green technology , you need to fully
understand what green technology is. Basically, green
technology is that in which the technology is environmentally
friendly and is created and used in a way that conserves
natural resources and the environment. You may hear green
technology being referred to as environmental technology and
clean technology.
Green technology is a field of new, innovative ways to make
changes in daily life. Currently, this Clean Technology is in
the beginning stages of its development, so the future will only
bring bigger and better things for this field.

Fig. 3. Picture representing the change from Rust belt to green belt

B. Goals Of Green Technology:

Green technology is the future of this society. It's main goal is

to find ways to produce technology in ways that do not

C. Circuit Powered By Light

The brain of any electronic device is the circuitry that operated
the machine. Without the circuitry, the device is not even
worth the cost of the plastic that it is made of. Any electronics
device requires some kind of battery or it is nothing more than
a paperweight. Recently, some new technology was created by
scientists from the University of Pennsylvania that will no
longer require a device to use a battery as the power can come
from light-powered circuitry.
While this may seem like ho-hum technology to some
people as they group in the category of just another solar
gadget, it is technology that can lead to incredible
independence down the road. Imagine cell phones or laptops
that never run out of power. To think that something that can
literally fit on the edge of a pair of tweezers can actually
create enough power to run some of these devices is pretty
amazing.
Another significant possibility for this type of technology is
the actual creation of a simulated human brain. While
everyone loves the Terminator movies, it is unlikely that
anyone thinks that we would ever see something like that
during our lifetime. However, this technology actually makes
that a very real possibility.
In essence, the light source would serve as the electrons that
normally power our brains. Data that is registered would

literally be able to be processed at the speed of light to

simulate the exact same functions as the human brain. The
scientific and technology communities are sitting there with
their mouths wide open in anticipation of what the future
holds because of this tiny little light-powered circuit.
While the light-powered circuit still has a way to go before it
can hold and generate the amount of power that would be
needed to power an electrical device, let alone a simulated
human brain, the hardest part has already been done. Now
they have to refine their discovery and figure out how to get
more power out of it so that it can realize its full potential.
Because of the sheer volume of discoveries that are announced
on an almost daily basis, it is understandable how something
can slip by and be perceived as no big deal. Make no mistake
about it; a light-powered circuit is one of those discoveries
that is a little more significant than a cell phone that has a
solar panel on the back of it. This is a discovery that can
literally change the world as we know it.

F. Applications
The applications of this circuit are of vast range.
Some of them are
The touch screen of phone could act as both electrical
charger and computer chip.
This breakthrough could one day make phone
chargers much less necessary
It could be used for everything from powering small
robotic devices
Artificial neutral networks to running at ultra-fast
computer calculations
These circuits could even be used to setup as artificial
networks that could model brain.

D. Working of this Solar Powered Circuit

The technology shows particular promise for touch screen
devices, which could use the circuits as a direct source for
sun-power. Not to be confused with solar cells, which convert
sunlight energy to electricity and store it for later, this
breakthrough involves circuitselectrical devices that provide
paths for electricity to flow. This means that sunlight absorbed
by the device can immediately use the energy to power the
device. Heres how the circuit works: Electrons, here known
as surface Plasmons, oscillate on tiny molecules called
nanoparticles. These Plasmons act as a 'super lenses,' which
gather all solar light hitting the circuit. Once the light's
collected, the particles pose as electrodes to ferry away the
electricity for a device to use

Fig. 4. Future robotic device

G. Research says We would have one amp with one volt in

a sample the diameter of a human hair and an inch long ...
If the efficiency scaled up without any additional limits.
This could open the door for many kinds of new devices
Dawn Bonnell
Fig. 4. Solar powered circuit

E. Advantages:
First of all the circuit is very small sized and it uses the power
of sun to power itself. It produces power as soon it is left in
the sun. The main advantage of this is that it is purely
environmentally friendly as the world is in need for it
nowadays.

The touch screen of your computer could act as both the

electrical charger and the computer chip-By Dawn
Bonnell, a Scientist from the University of Pennsylvania who
co-authored a recent ACS Nano paper describing the research
This as the potential to create a new generation of optical
and electronic devices. By Lukas Novotny, a Scientist at
the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester

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H. Conclusion:
In todays modern world of technology there is a need of
some green technology which can harness our society without
affecting the nature . As the increasing demands of energy by
the people all over the world. The scenario would be changing
fast as the need of every individual will increase. So in
upcoming years when this invention will be available for
future needs it will be a breakthrough. The circuit will change
the face of this world and it will be used in every field like
powering mobile phones and many household items ,
powering tiny robots for wars and doing complex operations.
As the invention is eco-friendly so the use for this is even
more.
This technology will open the door for many kinds of new
devices.
So lets hope for a beautiful upcoming generation and green
earth.

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www.wikipedia.org
www.mechatronicstips.com
www.environment-green.com
www.images.google.com

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