Assignment:
Imagine an electron trapped in a well that has walls that are 5nm thick and 10eV high and is 10nm wide. calculate the probability of tunneling for an electron with 0.5eV of kinetic energy. Now, determine the number of times the electron would hit a wall each second. using these two pieces of information determine how long it would take for there to be a 50% probability that the electron has already tunneled out. (imagine this as if you had a large number of these wells and you observed that at time, T, 50% of them were empty.