Relativistic resonant tunneling lifetime for double barrier system

Copyright c ○ 2013 S. P. Bhattacharya 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. A relativistic study on lifetime of resonant tunneling states in the case of the double barrier system consisting of rectangular potential barriers has been studied. This study reveals the fact that as compared to the non-relativistic resonant tunneling states the relativistic resonant states occur in the lower energies but they are having shorter lifetime..