Evolution and tunneling time of electron wave packets through a superlattice

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Simanjuntak, Herbert P ^a   Pereyra, Pedro ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA AZCAPOTZALCO   (Mexico)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON RADIATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; TIME; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0037438698     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.045301     Document Type: Article

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