Hi, is there anyone out there who successfully has set up a simulation with aluminum using the Drude model? I want to compute transmission through a grid made of aluminum, the Drude model parameters are: omega_p = 1.8x10^16 rad/s omega_tau = 1.1x10^15 rad/s The meep manual suggests to choose some small omega and set delta-epsilon accordingly.
What I do is: Define a block: (make block (center x x1 0) (size thick B L) (material (dielectric_drude w1 g1 de)) ) ) The function dielectric_drude looks like: (define (dielectric_drude w1 g1 de) (make dielectric (epsilon 1) (polarizations (make polarizability (omega w1) (gamma g1) (delta-epsilon de) ) ) ) ) The parameters are: (define c 299762458.0) (define a 500e-9) (define w0 (/ c a)) ; Drude-model parameter (define w1 (* (/ 1 w0) 1.0e15)) (define de -324) (define g1 1.8346) This gives me NaNs, i.e. the output looks like: #.# #.# #.# #.# #.# #.# #.# #.# Changing the parameters to e.g. ; (define w1 1.1) ; (define de 0.5) ; (define g1 1e-5) give at least numbers (I didn´t check for correctness so far). Any ideas? best wishes, andreas -- Dr. Andreas Wilde Gruppenleiter Physikalische Modellierung Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen Institutsteil Entwurfsautomatisierung Zeunerstr. 38, 01069 Dresden, Germany Tel: +49 351/4640-852 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list meep-discuss@ab-initio.mit.edu http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss