S PANDA and B K PANDA

Institute of Physics, Sachivalaya Marg, Bhubaneswar 751 005, India

Email: sudhira@iopb.res.in; bpanda@iopb.res.in

Abstract.

Electric field induced tunneling is studied in three different types of quantum wells by solving time-independent effective mass equation in analytic methods based on three different Airy function approaches.   Comparison of different Airy function methods indicates that they are identical and connected to each other by the Breit–Wigner formula.

Keywords: Quantum wells; Airy function methods; tunneling.

Pacs Nos. 66.30.Ny; 73.20.Dx; 73.40.Gk