Matter Waves

Resources

general
- New Scientist's guide to the Quantum World
- Modern Physics, Michael Fowler, University of Virginia
- Visual Quantum Mechanics, Kansas State University
- Physics 2000, University of Colorado
casimir
- The Phantom of Free Energy, Vic Stenger, Skeptical Briefs, June 1999
- Obituaries: Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir, Physics Today. Vol. 53, No. 9 (September 2000): 80–81.
de broglie
- Nobel Prize in Physics 1929, Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
- Waves and Quanta. Louis de Broglie, Nature. Vol. 112 (1923): 540.
davisson-germer (and thomson-reid)
- Scattering of Electrons by a Single Crystal of Nickel. Davisson and Germer. Nature. Vol. 119 (16 April 1927): 558–560; doi: 10.1038/119558a0.
- Diffraction of Cathode Rays by a Thin Film. G. P. Thomson & A. Reid. Nature. Vol. 119 No. 890 (18 June 1927): 890; doi: 10.1038/119890a0.
- Diffraction of Electrons by a Crystal of Nickel. C. Davisson & L. H. Germer. Physical Review. Vol. 30, No. 6 (December 1927): 705–740; doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.30.705.
- Reflection of Electrons by a Crystal of Nickel. C. J. Davisson & L. H. Germer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 14, No. 4 (15 April 1928): 317–322; doi: 10.1073/pnas.14.4.317.
- Reflection and Refraction of Electrons by a Crystal of Nickel. C. J. Davisson & L. H. Germer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 14, No. 8 (15 August 1928): 619–627; doi: 10.1073/pnas.14.8.619.
- A Test for Polarization of Electron Waves by Reflection. C. J. Davisson & L. H. Germer. Physical Review. Vol. 33, No. 5 (May 1929): 760–772; doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.33.760.
- Electron Lenses. C. J. Davisson & C. J. Calbick. Physical Review. Vol. 42, No. 4 (November 1932): 580; doi: 10.1103/PhysRev.42.580.
duality
- The Dual Nature of Light as Reflected in the Nobel Archive, Gösta Ekspong, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Wave Particle Duality, Queen Mary University of London
electron microscopes
- Beitrag zur geometrischen Elektronenoptik I. Max Knoll, Ernst Ruska. Annalen der Physik. Vol. 404, No. 5 (1932): 607–640; doi: 10.1002/andp.19324040506
- Beitrag zur geometrischen Elektronenoptik II. Max Knoll, Ernst Ruska. Annalen der Physik. Vol. 404, No. 6 (1932): 641–661; doi: 10.1002/andp.19324040602
- Das Elektronenmikroskop. Max Knoll, Ernst Ruska. Zeitschrift für Physik. Vol. 78 (1932): 318–339.
- Aufladepotentiel und Sekundäremission elektronenbestrahlter Körper. Max Knoll. Zeitschrift für technische Physik. Vol. 16 (1935): 467–475.
- Nobel Prize in Physics 1986, Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer
- US Patent 2,131,536, Electron Microscope, Max Knoll, 1938
- US Patent 2,267,137, Electron Microscope, Ernst Ruska, 1941
- US Patent 4,343,993, Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, 1982
- US Patent 4,724,318, Atomic Force Microscope, Gerd Binning, 1988
heisenberg
- Nobel Prize in Physics 1932, Werner Heisenberg
humor
- Hypothetical Cat Simultaneously Dead and Alive, Physicists Say, The Onion, 26 May 1999
- Haggar Physicists Develop "Quantum Slacks", The Onion, 6 June 2001
miscellaneous
- Herman Batelaan, University of Nebraska (Kapitza-Dirac Effect)
- Physicists Play the Nanopipe, Nature Science Update, 9 August 2001
- Two-dimensional imaging of electronic wavefunctions in carbon nanotubes, LeMay, et al. Nature 412, 617-620 (2001).
video on demand
- The Mechanical Universe and Beyond
  - Particles and Waves, Evidence that light can sometimes act like a particle leads to quantum mechanics, the new physics.
- Physics for the 21st Century
  - The Quantum World

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