On the Nature of Electronic Wave Functions in One-Dimensional Self-Similar and Quasiperiodic Systems

Figure 16

(a) Sketch of a Fibonacci dielectric multilayer grown along the 𝑧 direction, (b) refractive index profile 𝑛(𝑧) for an electromagnetic wave propagating through the structure and (c) electronic potential profile 𝑉(𝑧) for an electron propagation along the growth direction (from [68], Maciá, with permission from IOP Publishing Ltd.).

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