Is Lumerical RCWA capable of implementing anisotropic materials?

- February 7, 2022 at 9:30 pm
  
  oyesilyu
  Subscriber
  
  Hello,
  I have been using Lumerical RCWA recently and it works really nice. I was wondering if we could use anisotropic materials with it. I attempted to use them but the results clearly took one of the axis dispersion curve and calculated accordingly. If it is possible to do this, could you briefly describe it?
  
  Thanks,
  Omer
- February 10, 2022 at 12:18 am
  
  Guilin Sun
  Ansys Employee
  
  Thankyou for trying our new RCWA solver. Currently it is still under intense improvement and has no anisotropic capability. Please keep an eye on the release news which declares new features.
- February 10, 2022 at 12:20 am
  
  oyesilyu
  Subscriber
  
  Thank you so much gsun, I have one more question if that is okay. Can we implement substrates in the RCWA?
  
  Thanks Omer
- February 10, 2022 at 4:07 pm
  
  Guilin Sun
  Ansys Employee
  
  I believe so. You can try just a substrate and see if the result is ok. I have not used it yet.
- October 17, 2022 at 12:24 pm
  
  oyesilyu
  Subscriber
  
  Hello,
  I see we have a separate RCWA interface for Lumerical now, which is great! I was wondering if the we could use diagonal anisotropic materials in RCWA simulaitons?
  
  Best,
  Omer

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