a A team from the University of Arkansas Physicists has successfully developed a graphene circuit that can produce a clean unlimited product. The new system works by capturing the thermal motion of graphene and converting it into an electric current.
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In order to provide clean, unlimited, low-voltage power for small devices or sensors, a graphene-based energy spray-crop circuit can be incorporated into the chip, said Paul Thibado, professor of physics and lead researcher at Discovery.
However, research does not come without its fair share in the controversy. This is because it goes against the work of the famous Physicist Richard Feynman, who assumed that the thermal motion of an atom, known as the Brownian motion, could not be dealt with.
However, Thibado’s team found something that was previously considered impossible: at room temperature, graphene’s thermal motion induces an alternating current (AC). They did this by To convert AC to direct current (DC), create a circuit with two diodes instead of just one.
Diodes were placed in opposition so that current could flow both ways. This resulted in a DC current that acts on the load resistor and increases the amount of power delivered.
“We’ve also found that the the-, f, switch-like behavior of diodes really expands the distributed power, rather than previously reduced ideas,” Thibado said. “The rate of change in the resistance provided by the diode adds an additional factor to the power.”
To prove his theory, the team had to use a new field of physics. Associate Professor of Physics Associate Professor Pradeep Kumar said, “While proving the growth in this power, we drew from the field of the emergence of stochastic thermodynamics and expanded the almost century-old, necromancular celebration theory.”
The team is now seeking to determine whether the DC current can be stored in the capacitor for later use. The research is published in the journal Physical review e.
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