Physical mechanism for apparent superluminality in barrier tunneling

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-29

  Winful, Herbert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrier tunneling; Energy storage; Evanescent waves; Modulated standing waves; Photonic bandgap structures; Superluminality

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ENERGY STORAGE; FREQUENCIES; PULSE MODULATION;

BARRIER TUNNELING;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0037278454     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2002.807972     Document Type: Article

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