Simon, Thanks for clearing that up for me!
Regards, Chiraag > The scale in MEEP are all in terms of some characteristic length scale > (i.e. a, maybe it's the length of a unit cell) you choose. > > For example, if a is 1um, then 16X16X3 means 16umX16umX3um; if a is 1nm, > then 16X16X3 means 16nmX16nmX3nm. > > Regard, > > Simon > > we pick some characteristic lengthscale in the system, *a*, and use that > as > our unit of distance. > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Chiraag Nataraj > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I just started using MEEP and it's pretty amazing. I looked at the note >> about units on the wiki and I understand it. However, I wasn't clear >> about the length scale. For example, if I type in: >> >> (set! geometry-lattice (make lattice (size 16 16 3))) >> >> what are the units for the 16x16x3 lattice? Is it microns? Nanometers? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> - Chiraag >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> meep-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss
