[extropy-chat] microgenerator

[scerir]

Ii is also possible to couple mechanical and charge motion
together in subtle and interesting ways, with NEMS.
In example: the mechanical charge shuttle which seems to be
an electro-mechanical transistor, but, perhaps, also an 
engine (???). Oscillations of a 'clapper' periodically alter 
tunneling barriers between an electron island and a source/drain.
Result is a pumping of a charge due to mechanical motion.
At room temperature: ~ 1000 electrons per oscillation are 
pumped. At 4.2 K: ~ 0.11 electrons per oscillation are pumped.
If the system were sufficiently fine-tuned, it should be 
possible to get a single electron pumping even at room temperature.

http://www.nano.physik.uni-muenchen.de/report/rep01/part4.html#SHUTTLE

short ^

http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1367-2630/4/1/386/nj2186.html

nice ^

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/0011/0011429.pdf

first paper ^

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/9904/9904149.pdf

math ^
 
http://fy.chalmers.se/~nord/files/lic.pdf.

general  ^