TUNNELING:

TUNNELING OF A WAVE PACKET

SCATTERING OF A WAVE PACKET

TUNNELINGAND ALPHADECAY INNUCLEI

(+ SeeEx. 6.17)

OPERATION OF THE TUNNEL DIODE

Very fast switching forcomputer applications

=Electric

Field+-

FIELD EMISSION FROM A METAL

SCANNING TUNNELINGMICROSCOPY

+Occ.

V(x)

E

x

Occ

.

IMAGING, ANDMANIPULATING,

ATOMS AT SURFACESWITH THE STM

48 iron atoms on a Cu(111) surface—a “quantum corral”