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[Miller Testing]

I was trying to add roughness (LER) to a contact hole:

 

# add silicon substrate
addrect;
set("name","substrate");
set("x",0);
set("y",0);
set("z",0);
set("x span",10e-6);
set("y span",10e-6);
set("z span",1e-6);
set("material","Si (Silicon) - Palik");

# add contact hole
addcircle;
set("name","hole");
set("x",-2e-6);
set("y",-2e-6);
set("z",0.5e-6);
set("radius",0.05e-6);
set("material","Air");

# replicate contact holes along x direction
selectall;
replicatexy(11,1,0.2e-6,0);

# delete unwanted holes
selectpartial('hole');
delete;

# replicate contact holes along y direction
selectall;
replicatexy(1,11,0,0.2e-6);

# delete unwanted holes
selectpartial('hole');
delete;

 

# add roughness to all holes

selectall;

addroughness(

"x",

0,

"y",

0,

"z",

0,

"r",

5e-9,

20e-9,

"seed",

randomint(100000)

);

 

However I get this error:

- replicatexy is not a valid function or variable name

- line 15: matrices can not exceed 8 dimensions

Can someone help me to solve with this problem? 

Thank you.

 

[Guilin Sun]

I am not sure where you get "replicatexy" as it is not listed in the script commands officially:

https://optics.ansys.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034923553-Lumerical-scripting-language-Alphabetical-list

Neither "randomint".

Please check where is it from.

"- line 15: matrices can not exceed 8 dimensions"

I do not know which line 15 but as the message says, a matrix cannot have more than 8 dimensions, if you defined it.

 

For randomness, please refer to the structure groups in the Object Library.

[Miller Testing]

Dear Guilin Sun,

 

Thank you for your response. I apologize for the lack of clarity in my programming language. 

Actually, I want to add a beam structure and i want to implement the roughness on the surface area of the block by using script. 

If its not troubled you. Can you help and show me how to do that?

 

Thank you very much.

 

Best regards,

Miller

[Guilin Sun]

Please check the Object Library for some randomness. Also check the following articles:

Tips for adding surface roughness to structures – Ansys Optics

sroughness - Script command – Ansys Optics