https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2016-02647-2
Review
Nonlinear dynamics and the nano-mechanical control of electrons in crystalline solids
Nano-mechanical control of electrons
Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense, Paseo Juan XXIII 1, 28040 Madrid, Spain
a e-mail: mgvelarde@pluri.ucm.es
Received: 28 March 2016
Revised: 26 July 2016
Published online: 30 September 2016
Under the umbrella of nano-mechanical control of electrons in crystalline solids, provided here are i) a discussion of aspects of the influence of static piezoelectricity on semiconductors, ii) a description of electron surfing on traveling piezopotentials/surface acoustic waves, iii) comments on the role of solitons in (dopable) polymer conductors/synthetic metals, and iv) the major component of these notes, a discussion of basic aspects of lattice solitons and discrete breathers permitting to understand genuine electron surfing on nanosolitons. This surfing offers a form of long range, fast and robust transport process in crystalline solids. The particular case of the undopable highly crystalline polydiacetylene polymer serves to illustrate the invention of a novel solectron field effect transistor (SFET).
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