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  • Advanced and custom optical material models in FDTD and MODE
  • Alloy material model properties
  • C (graphene) - Falkovsky (mid-IR) material model
  • Creating and modifying electrical materials from a script
  • Creating and modifying optical materials from a script
  • Creating and modifying thermal materials from a script
  • Creating anisotropic optical materials in FDTD and MODE
  • Creating new sampled data materials in FDTD
  • Electrical/Thermal material models in CHARGE, HEAT, and MQW
  • Flexible Material Plugin Framework
  • Fluid material model properties
  • Graded Optical Alloys
  • Graphene surface conductivity material model
  • Layer Repetitions in RCWA
  • Material Database in FDTD and MODE
  • Material Database in Lumerical Multiphysics (CHARGE, HEAT, DGTD, FEEM, MQW)
  • Optical material models in DGTD and FEEM
  • Semiconductor Material Model Properties
  • Setting the alloy mole fraction
  • Standard optical conductivity material models in FDTD and MODE
  • Standard optical permittivity material models in FDTD and MODE
  • Tips and background information when using grid attributes
  • Tips and simple example for using the analytic material model in FDTD
  • Tips for creating a new alloy material
  • Tips for creating a new semiconductor material
  • Tips for improving the quality of optical material fits
  • Tips for using the (n,k) material model in FDTD
  • Understanding band offsets in heterostructures
  • Understanding mesh order for overlapping objects
  • Using the Material Explorer to view and adjust optical material models

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