Penetrating the Rectangular Potential Barrier, E < V0

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The following code compares my result to the known correct result. Can anyone find where my error is? If you run the octave code you will see that my answer has positive concavity whereas the correct one has negative concavity...I've checked this so many times and can't find my error. I wanted to see if I could correct it at this stage before trying to simplify to the known answer...thanks for any help.

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%I wrote this to check my work thus far on solving the GIANT algebra problem of penetrating the rectangular barrier, where E < V0
clear;close;clc;
% setting some constants

hbar = 1.0545718*10^(-34);
m = 9.10938356 * 10^(-31);
a = 10^-20; %can be purely arbitrary

V0 = 100; %can be purely arbitrary
inc = 1;
E = inc:inc:(V0-inc);

%wavenumber formulas
k1 = (sqrt(2*m*E))/hbar;
k2 = (sqrt(2*m*(V0-E)))/hbar;

%this section contains the solution
TSoln = (1 + (((sinh(k2*a)).^2)./((4*E/V0).*(1-E/V0)))).^(-1)

%this section contains my work thus far

iVal = i*k2/k1;
BLABLA1 = ( 1 - ((1-iVal).*(e.^(-2*k2*a) )./(1+iVal) ) ) + iVal.* (1 + ((1-iVal).*(e.^(-2*k2*a) )./(1+iVal)));
BLABLA2 = ( 1 - ((1+iVal).*(e.^(2*k2*a) )./(1-iVal) ) ) - iVal.* (1 + ((1+iVal).*(e.^(2*k2*a) )./(1-iVal)));

C = (e.^(-i*k1*a)).* ((e.^(-k2*a)./ ( BLABLA1 ) ) + (e.^(k2*a)./ ( BLABLA2 )));
TChip = 4*(C.*conj(C))

plot (E, [TSoln;TChip]);
 
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