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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 June 2013
Studies of carrier motion in a variety of nanostructures have indicated that a modified Drude model can be applied, by considering carrier bound motion from backscattering mechanisms and localized oscillator modes. Based on the results of these studies a model of damped harmonic oscillation modes is suggested to evaluate transport parameters in piezotronic devices. Here, the case of a system subject to static and low frequency piezoelectric fields is considered which corresponds to typical working conditions of nanogenerators and, as a working example, the response of ZnO nanowires excited by sound waves is analyzed.