The wavefunction and the Kronig–Penney dispersion relation of an electron moving in a one‐dimensional periodic array of delta potentials are found, in the relativistic as well as in the nonrelativistic case. The Green’s function method and Bloch’s theorem are used in a simple form.
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1987
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