Resonant Tunneling Through Quantum Dot Arrays

Resonant tunneling through Quantum dot arrays is the quantum-mechanical effect of transition through a classically-forbidden energy state. Consider rolling a ball up a hill. If the ball is not given enough velocity, then it will not roll over the hill. This makes sense classically. But in quantum mechanics, objects exhibit wavelike behaviour. For a quantum particle moving against a potential hill, the wave function describing the particle can extend to the other side of the hill. This wave represents the probability of finding the particle in a certain location, meaning that the particle has t…