Nano Tech To Extend Mobile Battery Run Longer After Charging

A dedicated team of Electrical Engineers from the Illinois University has discovered a ‎method by which mobiles and laptops could operate nonstop 100 times longer between ‎charges. The solution was arrived at by altering the way the digital memory of the device works. ‎

Present generation mobile phone memories contain thin metal wires. Electricity is ‎conducted through them to retrieve the data. ‎The electrical engineers were of the opinion that if the size of the components used to store ‎and retrieve the information could be minimized; the amount of electricity passing ‎through would also diminish. So they came up with the idea of using carbon nano-tubes – ‎tiny tubes that were 10,000 times thinner than a human hair – instead. ‎

The energy consumption is related with the volume of the memory bit. Use of nano-scale ‎contacts, leads to much lower power consumption. It would be wonderful to have devices ‎whose batteries can last for weeks or months. The energy efficiency would be relatively high and ‎power requirements correspondingly very low that the power requirement could be met simply by tapping heat ‎energy, kinetic energy or solar energy in the days to come.‎

Date: Sunday March 13, 2011