Energy storage in superluminal barrier tunneling: Origin of the "Hartman effect"

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 25, 2002, Pages 1491-1496

  Winful, Herbert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ENERGY TRANSFER; GRAVITATION; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY; HARTMAN EFFECTS; INTERFERENCE; SUPERLUMINAL BARRIER;

ENERGY STORAGE;

EID: 0013453598     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.001491     Document Type: Article

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