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PARMENTER1, and later Gurevich2, predicted that a single longitudinal acoustic wave passing along a metal or semiconductor should produce a steady potential difference in the material. Weinreich and White3 and Sasaki and Yoshida4 observed the effect in germanium.
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Parmenter, R. H., Phys. Rev., 89, 990 (1953); 113, 102 (1959).
Gurevich, L. E., Izvest. Akad. Nauk. SSSR., ser. Phys., 21, 112 (1957).
Weinreich, G., and White, H. G., Phys. Rev., 106, 1104 (1957).
Sasaki, W., and Yoshida, E., J. Phys. Soc. Japan, 12, 979 (1957).
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SMITH, P., SPROULE, D. Experiments on the Acousto-Electric Effect. Nature 184, 264 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/184264a0
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