Front propagation in evanescent media

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 781-794

  Buttiker M ^a   Thomas, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Causality; Monochromatic fronts; Traversal time for tunneling

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; LIGHT VELOCITY; PHOTONS; VELOCITY;

CAUSALITY; EVANESCENT MEDIA; FRONT PROPAGATION; MONOCHROMATIC FRONTS;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0031705503     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/spmi.1997.0540     Document Type: Article

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