Re: [Meep-discuss] Computer

2012-07-02 Thread gpipc
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:11:08 +0100, Rita Ribeiro ritbe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i will buy a computer to program in python using the MEEP software, but i have several questions about it. Should i bought two computers to do parallel programming or just one computer with several cpu? R. Hi

Re: [Meep-discuss] Au permittivity for estimating SP wavelength of nanohole arrays

2012-03-29 Thread gpipc
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:14:29 +0800, 虞益挺 yyt8...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Giovanni, Thanks for your reply and the links. I am sorry that I didn't make it so clear to my question. As for the meep simulation with dispersive materials, I have no problems and it goes well. At this stage, I

Re: [Meep-discuss] Au permittivity for estimating SP wavelength of nanohole arrays

2012-03-29 Thread gpipc
You can find the formula in lots of publications relating with the transmission property of metallic nanohole arrays. The following link gives one of the most important: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josab/abstract.cfm?uri=josab-16-10-1743 Periodicity plays an important role in the

Re: [Meep-discuss] Au permittivity for estimating SP wavelength of nanohole arrays

2012-03-28 Thread gpipc
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:33:07 +0800, 虞益挺 yyt8...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Aaron, Dear meep users,By the 3D simulation using MEEP, the transmission property at wavelengths 500~1000nm of 2D periodic array of Au nanoholes has now been achieved, from which an obvious SP resonant wavelength is

Re: [Meep-discuss] meep-discuss about meep-mpi

2012-03-02 Thread gpipc
and see if this helps (describes a problem like yours and its solution): http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.science.electromagnetism.meep.general/4080/match=gpipc Giovanni Message sent by Cup Webmail (Roundcube

Re: [Meep-discuss] Field enhancement at dielectric tip

2011-08-03 Thread gpipc
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 08:49:47 -0400, J. Steele Parris parri...@vcu.edu wrote: The tip is a 1x1x4 nickel block that has been cut to a pyramid point on one side and affixed to a nickel layer (1 unit thick) and a silicon substrate. There is also a thin layer of silver on the pyramid point of the

Re: [Meep-discuss] Field enhancement at dielectric tip

2011-08-01 Thread gpipc
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:51:38 -0400, J. Steele Parris parri...@vcu.edu wrote: Hello fellow Meep users! I am measuring the enhancement of the electric field at the tip of a nickel nanotip with a silver coating on top. When I measure and compare to a blank field, the enhancement is 10^13. I find

Re: [Meep-discuss] converting data from a .dat file to matrix

2011-06-06 Thread gpipc
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 09:53:16 -0700 (PDT), hodjat hajian hh.solidst...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear users hi, I extract some data in a comma-delimited format in a .dat file, as below: flux1:, 0.25, 2.64484059275628e-4 flux1:, 0.250400801603206, 2.87434928639728e-4 flux1:, 0.250801603206413,

Re: [Meep-discuss] converting data from a .dat file to matrix

2011-06-06 Thread gpipc
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:18:25 +0200, gpipc gp...@cup.uni-muenchen.de wrote: On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 09:53:16 -0700 (PDT), hodjat hajian hh.solidst...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear users hi, I extract some data in a comma-delimited format in a .dat file, as below: flux1:, 0.25, 2.64484059275628e-4 flux1

[Meep-discuss] How to configure Meep-MPI for single Intel i7 CPU?

2011-04-23 Thread gpipc
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:32:00 -0400, Boshen Gao boshen.gao.opt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am using meep-mpi to simulate some simple 3-D SOI photonic crystal based structures on my PC. It has an i7-930 Quad-core CPU @ 4 GHz. My problem is, while I use command mpirun -np 4 meep-mpi

Re: [Meep-discuss] polarization in 2D and polarizabilities

2011-02-16 Thread gpipc
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:18:00 +0100, Stefan mystylishl...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear Meep-users, I hope you can help me with two questions: 1) When I fit experimental data of the dielectric function with the formula given in Materials in Meep, so find the polarizabilities, it seems to me

Re: [Meep-discuss] polarization in 2D and polarizabilities

2011-02-16 Thread gpipc
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:58:22 +0100, Stefan mystylishl...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Giovanni, thanks a lot for your reply. When I use h5topng to make the results visible I see the waves propagating as expected for source and output Ez, but don't see any waves for source and output Ex or Ey. I

Re: [Meep-discuss] Polarization uni conversion

2011-01-28 Thread gpipc
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:16:03 +0100, Stefan Kapser stefan.kap...@ph.tum.de wrote: Dear Meep users, I have got the Polarizabilities in Meep units for a=1µm and would now like to use these in a simulation with a=1nm. Since the unit of the polarizability is A^2 s^4 / kg I want to convert the

Re: [Meep-discuss] Polarization uni conversion

2011-01-28 Thread gpipc
the name of the sender first and I often forget about it. On 01/28/2011 02:21 PM, gpipc wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:16:03 +0100, Stefan Kapser stefan.kap...@ph.tum.de wrote: Dear Meep users, I have got the Polarizabilities in Meep units for a=1µm and would now like to use

Re: [Meep-discuss] pulsed laser

2011-01-19 Thread gpipc
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:27:44 +0100, Stefan Kapser stefan.kap...@ph.tum.de wrote: Hi, I'm trying to simulate a laser pulse falling on a dielectric structure and don't really know where to find the necessary information. What I am especially looking for is how to define the spectral

[Meep-discuss] Superposing geometric objects in Meep

2011-01-13 Thread gpipc
Hi, I have a question on what happens if one sets a list of geometrical objects that occupy the same parts of space. For example, modifiying slightly the first example in the Meep tutorial: (set! geometry-lattice (make lattice (size 16 8 no-size))) (set! geometry (list (make

Re: [Meep-discuss] Dielectric Function Parameters for gold

2011-01-05 Thread gpipc
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:36:44 +0800, Towhidur Razzak towrazz...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am trying to simulate light propagation through a gold nano-aperture. But I have not yet obtain a model of gold which can reliably model gold in MEEP at optical frequencies. It would

Re: [Meep-discuss] Meep-mpi: hard limit of ~ 2e9 points?

2010-12-31 Thread gpipc
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:36:54 +0100, Georg Wachter georgwach...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, For the simulation of small metal structures with meep, I unfortunately need a ridiculously high resolution, Hi Georg, since we are working with a similar FDTD problem (simulation of small metal

Re: [Meep-discuss] Regarding Near field enhancement and Scattering cross section

2010-12-29 Thread gpipc
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:05:57 -0800, Alex Swinton McLeod alexsmcl...@gmail.com wrote: Giovanni, It depends on what you are trying to do. If you are simply interested in an integrated flux quantity e.g. total scattered flux, then all the tools you need are already built into meep, as you

Re: [Meep-discuss] Meep-mpi: hard limit of ~ 2e9 points?

2010-12-29 Thread gpipc
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:36:54 +0100, Georg Wachter georgwach...@gmail.com wrote: PS.: I would really like to see a possibility for having regions of different resolution in meep. This is The One Feature (for me) that commercial competitors have over Meep or any free electromagnetism

Re: [Meep-discuss] building MPI meep issues

2010-12-23 Thread gpipc
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:46:51 -0500, Brock Palen bro...@umich.edu wrote: When trying to build the MPI version of meep I keep getting errors when trying to include libctl ./configure --with-libctl=/tmp/libctl/ --prefix=/home/software/rhel5/meep/1.1.1/par --with-mpi CC=mpicc

Re: [Meep-discuss] Regarding Near field enhancement and Scattering cross section

2010-12-23 Thread gpipc
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:38:22 -0700, Alex McLeod alexsmcl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jack, In regards to your questions about near-field enhancement and scattering, I have some comments to make. (cut) Also, note that using flux regions will only let you compute absorption, since fluxes

Re: [Meep-discuss] Problem linking to HDF5 - solved, with some questions remaining

2010-12-21 Thread gpipc
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:59:59 +0100, gpipc gp...@cup.uni-muenchen.de wrote: Dear Meep users, I have compiled Meep on my personal computer in the office without problems; now I want to install Meep on a cluster (managed by someone else) and I have a problem linking to some HDF5 libraries. I

[Meep-discuss] libmeep.la : shared or static?

2010-12-20 Thread gpipc
Dear Meep users, still regarding the problem of linking to the HDF5 libraries that I am experiencing, I have become suspicious about the error message Linking the shared library libmeep.la against the *** static library /lrz/sys/libraries/hdf5/1.6.10_serial/lib/libhdf5_hl.a is not portable! It

[Meep-discuss] Problem linking to HDF5

2010-12-17 Thread gpipc
Dear Meep users, I have compiled Meep on my personal computer in the office without problems; now I want to install Meep on a cluster (managed by someone else) and I have a problem linking to some HDF5 libraries. More precisely I get these messages from make *** Warning: Linking the shared

[Meep-discuss] Drude model for gold working, Drude-Lo rentz no ... why???

2010-12-13 Thread gpipc
Dear Meep users, I would like to calculate the scattering cross-section of a gold nanoparticle using Meep; with the method of hitting the nanoparticle with a plane wave and calculating the flux exiting a box that completely surrounds it. The calculation works reasonably if I model the nanoparticle

Re: [Meep-discuss] Verification of material (Au) dispersion

2010-12-12 Thread gpipc
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 16:42:11 +0100, Marell, M.J.H. m.j.h.mar...@tue.nl wrote: If I’m not mistaking , this only works for dispersive media of which the real part is positive, because for negative epsilon you just get exponential decay There is way to verify your material:

[Meep-discuss] Best chip for multi-core performance of Meep?

2010-09-25 Thread gpipc
Dear Meep users, I want to buy a new computer (or a small workstation if that will be the best deal) for running numerical calculation - among which Meep. Maybe with two processors, but first I want to get some information and orient myself on the various options: if possible, I would like to get