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Enhancement of parameter variation objects

Objects of type ‘parameter variation’ in the list of special computations keep the highest and lowest y-values and the corresponding x-values. You can retrieve these values as optical functions and show them in a view.

Here is an example:

parameter_variation

 

The SCOUT technical manual has been updated – it contains a documentation of parameter variation objects as members of the list of special computations. Here is a link:

SCOUT technical manual

List of fit parameters: New commands in ‘Actions’ submenu

We have added some new commands in the submenu ‘Actions’ which turned out to be practical when fitting many oscillators of organic materials in the infrared.

  • Set active material: Type in the name of a material (must be present in the list of materials) in order to select it for the actions below.
  • Select all parameters: Select all parameters of the active material as fit parameters.
  • Select oscillators: Selects all oscillator parameters of the active material as fit parameters. This is useful while adjusting models for organic materials in the infrared which may may have many oscillators. Manual parameter selection is tedious in such a case. Please note that for Kim oscillators (which are very much recommended) the parameter ‘Gauss-Lorentz switch’ is not selected since we found that in almost all cases absorption bands have a Gaussian line shape which is the default setting of Kim oscillators.
  • Select oscillator strengths: Selects all oscillator strengths of the active material as fit parameters.

Special computations: Parameter variation enhanced

CODE 3.98

The capabilities of ‘parameter variation’ objects in the list of special computations have been enhanced. You can now define ‘offset functions’ which are computed once before the parameter variation is executed. The example below discusses an application of this feature.

Suppose you are computing the dependence of color coorinates a* and b* on layer thicknesses. For each layer you generate an ‘arrow diagram’ showing how the position of the layer stack in the a*-b*-plane changes with thickness modifications. Superimposing 3 of such diagrams would give a graph like this:

originalUnfortunately the model does not perfectly reproduce the measured reflectance spectrum. As a result, the ‘measured’ color position is different from the simulated one. In this situation you might want to display the arrows at the ‘measured’ color position, believing that the direction and the size of the arrows will be similar there. A graph like this would show operators where they are with their real product and where they would go with thickness variations.

You can generate the desired offset the following way. Compute a* and b* of the simulated spectrum in the list of integral quantities as item 1 and 2, and compute the a* and b* of the measured spectrum as items 4 and 5. In function definitions you can refer to these numbers as iq(1), iq(2), iq(4) and iq(5), respectively. The dialog for the first parameter variation object (modifying the TiO2 layer thickness) would look like this:

sc_parameter_variation_dialog

Defining similar offsets for the other two layer thickness variation objects you will get a shifted arrow graph, centered at the color position of the measured reflectance:

shiftedObviously, you should use this feature only in cases where you are sure that the applied offset is justified and does not lead to wrong conclusions.