"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Potentials in multilayer planar systems -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Equations of the spatial distribution of potentials in planar multilayer systems -- 1.3. Modulation transmission matrix -- 1.4. Modulation transmission matrix for three-layer and five-layer systems -- 1.5. Modulation transmission matrix for periodic s…