“…Humphreys, 1979) that the excitation coefficients c i of the different Bloch waves in the crystal can be written c i= C~* as assumed in the text [equation (1)]. However, when absorption is taken into account by adding a small imaginary term iU'(r), the standard treatment no longer holds (David, Gevers & Stumpp, 1985). Since the nonHermitian part of the potential is purely imaginary, we must have U~* = U'g and therefore for the complex potential (Ug+iU'g)~(U_g+iU'_g)*.…”