%Chapt4Exercise3b.m %resonant tunneling through 3 barriers clear clf; nbarrier=3; %number of potential barriers bx=0.1e-9; %barrier width (m) wx=0.4e-9; %well width (m) V0=10; %barrier energy (eV) N=(2*nbarrier)+1; %number of samples of potential for j=1:2:(2*nbarrier) %set up position and potential array dL(j)=wx; V(j)=0; dL(j+1)=bx; V(j+1)=V0; end dL(N)=wx; V(N)=0; Emin=pi*1e-5; %add (pi*1.0e-5) to energy to avoid divide by zero Emax=15; %maximum particle energy (eV) npoints=1500; %number of points in energy plot dE=Emax/npoints; %energy increment (eV) hbar=1.05457159e-34; %Planck's constant (J s) eye=complex(0.,1.); %square root of -1 m0=9.109382e-31; %bare electron mass (kg) meff=1.0; %effective electron mass / m0 m=meff*m0; %effective electron mass (kg) echarge=1.6021764e-19; %electron charge (C) for j=1:npoints E(j)=dE*j+Emin; bigP=[1,0;0,1]; %default value of matrix bigP for i=1:N k(i)=sqrt(2*echarge*m*(E(j)-V(i)))/hbar; %wave vector at energy E end for n=1:(N-1) %multiply out propagation matrix p(1,1)=0.5*(1+k(n+1)/k(n))*exp(-eye*k(n)*dL(n)); p(1,2)=0.5*(1-k(n+1)/k(n))*exp(-eye*k(n)*dL(n)); p(2,1)=0.5*(1-k(n+1)/k(n))*exp(eye*k(n)*dL(n)); p(2,2)=0.5*(1+k(n+1)/k(n))*exp(eye*k(n)*dL(n)); bigP=bigP*p; end Trans(j)=(abs(1/bigP(1,1)))^2; %transmission coefficient end figure(1); %plot potential and transmission coefficient Vp=[V;V];Vp=Vp(:); xcell=bx+wx;deltax=xcell/1000;x0=[wx-deltax,wx,xcell-deltax,xcell];x=x0;for j=1:(N-3)/2,x=[x,x0+j*xcell];end;x=[0,x,(nbarrier+1)*xcell]; subplot(1,2,1),plot(x,Vp),axis([0,(nbarrier+1)*xcell,0,Emax]),xlabel('Position, x (m)'),ylabel('Potential energy, V (eV)'); ttl=['Chapt4Exercise3b (',num2str(nbarrier),'-barriers), m_{eff} = ',num2str(meff),' x m_0']; title(ttl); subplot(1,2,2),plot(Trans,E),axis([0,1,0,Emax]),xlabel('Transmission coefficient'),ylabel('Energy, E (eV)'); figure(2); subplot(1,2,1),plot(x,Vp);axis([0,(nbarrier+1)*xcell,0,Emax]),xlabel('Position, x (m)');ylabel('Potential energy, V (eV)'); title(ttl); subplot(1,2,2);plot(-log(Trans),E);axis([0,20,0,Emax]);xlabel('-ln trans. coeff.');ylabel('Energy, E (eV)');