Abstract
A potential barrier of the kind studied by Fowler and others may be represented by the analytic function (Eq. (1)). The Schrödinger equation associated to this potential is soluble in terms of hypergeometric functions, and the coefficient of reflection for electrons approaching the barrier with energy is calculable (Eq. (15)). The approximate formula, is shown to agree very well with the exact formula when the width of the barrier is great compared to the de Broglie wave-length of the incident electron, and .
- Received 21 April 1930
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.35.1303
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