1. An Overview on the Artificial Eye (Using MEMS Technology)
R. K. Ojha [Associate Lecturer]
Dept. of Physics, Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, India
MEMS has become one of the fastest growing area of scientific research, with new inventions.
MEMS techniques and microsystem-based devices have the potential to dramatically effect of all of our lives and the way we live.
The bionic eye system mainly consists of a small digital camera, external processor and both are implant with a microchip and stimulating electrodes surgically placed in the back of the patient's eye.
In the Bionic eye, it comprises a computer chip which is kept in the back of the patient's eye, linked up using a mini video camera built into glasses that they wear.
Images captured by the camera are beamed to the chip, which translates them into impulses that the brain can interpret.
INTRODUCTION
MEMS is the most promising technology. It plays a very important role in the revolution of industrial and consumer products by combining silicon based micro electronics with micromachining technology.
The main function of bionic eye is to restore basic visual cues for those people who are suffering from eye diseases .
In bionic eye a micro video camera fitted to the goggle used by patient, it will capture the image and process it . After that images are sent via wireless medium to a bionic eye, which is implanted at the back of eye, it generates optic signals to stimulates optic nerves to generate points of light, it forms the basis of images in the brain . Thus a blind one can also watch that object .
ABSTRACT
THE BIONIC EYE
The overall system use in Bionic eye requires power supply for its operation. In Bionic eye Nano generators are used for power supply. The Nano generators are very small in size it does not need petrol or diesel like other generators for its mechanical movement instead even a small finger movement of our body will be enough to produce a considerable amount of electricity required. This generators work on the principle of piezoelectric effect, this could play a vital role in providing the power source for bionic eye cause this will avoid the use of battery which is a toxic instead we can use Nano generator which will produce electricity due to flow of blood which gives it a mechanical force. Flexing the nanowires through vibration (like sound waves) produces a current in the wire. When the wire bends far enough to touch a discharge electrode, the current is transferred. So, the more the nanowire gets bent or vibrated, the more current it produces.
POWER SUPPLY
The fabrication of Bionic eye using MEMS Technology involves integration of electronic components like control circuits, communication circuits, miniature antennas and LEDS.
We need to make use of high temperatures and also corrosive chemicals, because of this we cannot manufacture them directly on to lens and we also have to make sure that all the component of lens are miniaturized and integrated onto about 1.5 square centimeters of a flexible, transparent polymer. This problem can be eliminated by the use of self-assembly process.
FABRICATION PROCESS USING MEMS TECHNOLOGY
1. It can play a vital role in the field of medical electronics.
2. These lenses that can superimpose computer-generated high-resolution color graphics on a user’s real field of vision.
3. Sensors built onto lenses would let diabetic wearers keep tabs on blood-sugar levels without needing to prick a finger
4. Virtual gamers could use the real world as a backdrop for their adventures
Restoration of sight for the blind is no more a dream for people. Bionic Eyes have made this true. Though there are a number of challenges to be faced before this technology reach the common man, the path has been laid. This paper has tried to present the concept of Artificial Vision called “Bionic Eyes”. It is just a matter of time, may be 4-5 years that the blind will be able to see through these Bionic Eyes, with thanks to Science and Technology.
APPLICATIONS OF BIONIC EYE
CONCLUSIONS