See Also: tunneling(encyclopedia)
tunneling effect(medicine)
microscopy, scanning tunneling(medicine)

CERN (iou) and tunneling (sh)


CERN (iou)



CERN abbreviation.
French Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire European Organization for Nuclear Research (later European Laboratory for Particle Physics).

tunneling (sh)




or barrier penetration

In physics, the passage of a particle through a seemingly impassable energy barrier.

Though a particle's energy may be too low to surmount a barrier in classical physics, the particle may still cross the barrier as a consequence of its quantum-mechanical wave properties. An important application of this phenomenon is in the operation of the scanning tunneling microscope.