CHINESE JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, cilt.48, sa.1, ss.27-37, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
The Dirac equation is solved for some exponential potentials the hypergeometric-type potential, the generalized Morse potential, and the Poschl-Teller potential with any spin-orbit quantum number kappa in the case of spin and pseudospin symmetry. We have approximated for non s-waves the centrifugal term by an exponential form. The energy eigenvalue equations and the corresponding wave functions are obtained by using a generalization of the Nikiforov-Uvarov method.