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scuff-em documentation: Table of contents

Tutorial Examples

Photonics, plasmonics, transmission, imaging

• Mie scattering
• Electrostatics of a spherical dielectric shell
• LDOS and polarization-sensitive response in plasmonic bowtie antennas
• LDOS and dyadic Green functions above an infinite aluminum half-space
• Spatially-resolved study of plane-wave transmission through an infinite-area thin dielectric film
• Plane-wave transmission with rotation of polarization: Chiral metasurface rotator
• Imaging diffraction patterns of discs, disc arrays, and hole arrays in metal screens
• Imaging diffraction patterns of aperiodic arrays: Vogel spirals
• Mode frequencies and field patterns of resonant modes in gold nanorods

RF device modeling

• S-parameters, directivity, and radiated field patterns of Yagi-Uda antennas
• Input impedance, mutual coupling, and radiated fields of microstrip RF devices

Fluctuation-induced phenomena

• Casimir forces in a compact geometry
• Casimir forces in a 1D extended geometry
• Casimir forces in a 2D extended geometry
• Thermal radiation, heat transfer, and non-equilibrium Casimir forces between silicon dioxide spheres
• Spatial distribution of heat flux from a warm tip over a cold substrate

Pure electrostatics

• Electrostatic polarizability of platonic solids
• Capacitance of two-body capacitors
• Capacitance of PCB stripline trace
• Implicit handling of multilayer dielectric substrates
• Finite-size effects in metal-on-substrate capacitors (with data fitting in python)
• Electrostatic fields of an electrode array

BU Symposium on Open-Source CAD Tools for Photonic Design Modeling

• BU Symposium on Open-Source CAD tools: scuff-em for photonics

Test Suite

• Overview of the scuff-em test suite
• Mie scattering
• Fresnel scattering
• Equilibrium Casimir forces between spheres
• Equilibrium Casimir forces between plates
• Equilibrium Casimir-Polder potential near a sphere
• Equilibrium Casimir-Polder potential near a plate
• Heat transfer and non-equilibrium Casimir forces between spheres
• Low-level tests of the scuff-em core library

General reference

• Top-level overview
• Installation
• Geometry files
• Automated detection of equivalent edge and surface pairs
• Material descriptions
• Geometrical transformations
• Incident Fields
• Brillouin-zone integration
• FAQ

Command-line tools:

• General reference for scuff-em command-line applications

• Nanophotonics codes

  • scuff-scatter: general-purpose electromagnetic scattering
  • scuff-ldos - photonic local density of states
  • scuff-transmission - plane-wave transmission through 2D extended structures
  • scuff-tmatrix - T-matrices of arbitrary compact objects in the spherical-wave basis

• Equilibrium Casimir codes

  • scuff-cas3d - Casimir energies, forces, and torques
  • scuff-caspol - Casimir-Polder potentials

• Non-equilibrium Casimir/ heat-transfer code

  • scuff-neq - radiative heat transfer and non-equilibrium Casimir forces/torques

• RF / microwave engineering code

  • scuff-rf - multiport network parameters (S- and impedance parameters), and radiated fields, for passive RF and microwave structures.

• Mode solver

  • scuff-spectrum - identification of frequencies, lifetimes, and field patterns of electromagnetic resonant modes in complex structures

• Electrostatics code

  • scuff-static - pure electrostatics problems: capacitance matrices, DC polarizabilities, electrostatic potentials and fields

• Utility codes

  • scuff-analyze - diagnostic tool to print info on scuff-em geometries
  • scuff-integrate - utility tool to integrate functions using samples tabulated in data files

High-level interface

• scuff-solver: A high-level interface to scuff-em

Low-level API

• libscuff - Accessing scuff-em from C++ and python programs

Developer reference

• Implementation - how scuff-em works
• DataStructures - data structures and methods inside the scuff-em core library
• Documentation - about the scuff-em documentation
• Singular integrals - scuff-em's code for computing singular triangle-product integrals

Technical memos

• libscuff Implementation and Technical Details - a technical memo describing many details of the core library implementation
• Computation of power, force, and torque in scuff-em - a technical memo describing methods for computing power, force and torque, with applications to both classical scattering and non-equilibrium fluctuational electrodynamics
• Computation of fields near panels in scuff-em - a technical memo describing the computation of fields near triangular panels in discretized surface meshes
• Computation of Green's Functions and LDOS in scuff-em - a technical memo describing the implementation of the scuff-ldos code for computing dyadic Green's functions and local photonic densities of states
• Computation of reflection and transmission coefficients in scuff-em - a technical memo describing the implementation of the scuff-transmission code for computing plane-wave transmission and reflection coefficients
• scuff-static: Pure electrostatics in scuff-em -- a technical memo describing the implementation of the scuff-static code for electrostatics
• Electromagnetism in the vector-spherical-wave (VSW) basis -- a technical memo collecting results of various classical electromagnetism calculations in the vector-spherical-wave basis
• RF device modeling in scuff-em -- a technical memo describing the implementation of RF device modeling in the integral-equation framework of scuff-em
• Implicit handling of multilayered material substrates in full-wave scuff-em calculations -- a technical memo describing the implementation of implicit support for layered dielectric substrates and ground planes