Tunneling time asymmetry in semiconductor heterostructures

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1887-1893

  Dragoman, Daniela ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

TUNNELING TIME ASYMMETRY;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 0033324085     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.1109/3.806604     Document Type: Article

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