[Meep-discuss] Units for polarizability components

2008-01-18 Thread Manoj Rajagopalan
Hi all, Meep's polarizabilities are specified using omega, gamma, delta-epsilon, sigma etc. Should the gamma be specified in units of c/a or 2PI*c/a? This doubt stems from the Johnson and Christy paper on optical constants for noble metals where gamma is specified as 1/tau where tau i

Re: [Meep-discuss] Grid point positions

2008-01-18 Thread cioc boc
Hi! Please note, in NEWS of Meep 0.10 it is written, "* Symmetries no longer require the cell size to be an even number of pixels. Previously, Meep exited with an error in this case, whereas now it simply adds an extra pixel to the cell size as needed." ___