Superluminal photonic tunneling and quantum electronics

Progress in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 81-108

  Nimtz, Günter ^a   Heitmann, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; QUANTUM MECHANICAL ELECTRONIC TUNNELING; SCHROEDINGER EQUATION; SUPERLUMINAL PHOTONIC TUNNELING;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 0030661560     PISSN: 00796727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6727(97)84686-1     Document Type: Review

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