Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 246438, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/246438
Research Article

Acceleration of Material Waves in Fermi Accelerator

Department of Electronics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan

Received 1 May 2009; Revised 30 June 2009; Accepted 6 July 2009

Academic Editor: Edson Denis Leonel

Copyright © 2009 Javed Akram et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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