Docstring fix to flux monitors; changelog and schema for 1.6.3

Author: momchil-flex

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,17 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Added
 
+## [1.6.3] - 2022-9-13
+
+### Added
+- Type field for `DataArray` subclasses written to `hdf5`.
+
+### Fixed
+- Docstring for `FluxMonitor` and `FluxTimeMonitor`.
+
+### Removed
+- Explicit error message about `grid_size` deprecation.
+
 ## [1.6.2] - 2022-9-6
 
 ### Added
@@ -404,7 +415,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Job and Batch classes for better simulation handling (eventually to fully replace webapi functions).
 - A large number of small improvements and bug fixes.
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/flexcompute/tidy3d/compare/v1.6.1...develop
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/flexcompute/tidy3d/compare/v1.6.3...develop
+[1.6.3]: https://github.com/flexcompute/tidy3d/compare/v1.6.2...v1.6.3
 [1.6.2]: https://github.com/flexcompute/tidy3d/compare/v1.6.1...v1.6.2
 [1.6.1]: https://github.com/flexcompute/tidy3d/compare/v1.6.0...v1.6.1
 [1.6.0]: https://github.com/flexcompute/tidy3d/compare/v1.5.0...v1.6.0

tidy3d/components/monitor.py

@@ -374,10 +374,8 @@ class FluxMonitor(AbstractFluxMonitor, FreqMonitor):
     """:class:`Monitor` that records power flux in the frequency domain.
     If the monitor geometry is a 2D box, the total flux through this plane is returned, with a
     positive sign corresponding to power flow in the positive direction along the axis normal to
-    the plane. If the geometry is a 3D box, the returned array has a ``surface`` coordinate, and
-    stores the flux through each of the six surfaces of the box. The sign convention in that case
-    is such that positive sign corresponds to power flowing outside of the box, such that
-    summing over the ``surface`` dimension results in the total out-going power.
+    the plane. If the geometry is a 3D box, the total power coming out of the box is returned by
+    integrating the flux over all box surfaces (excpet the ones defined in ``exclude_surfaces``).
 
     Example
     -------
@@ -406,10 +404,8 @@ class FluxTimeMonitor(AbstractFluxMonitor, TimeMonitor):
     """:class:`Monitor` that records power flux in the time domain.
     If the monitor geometry is a 2D box, the total flux through this plane is returned, with a
     positive sign corresponding to power flow in the positive direction along the axis normal to
-    the plane. If the geometry is a 3D box, the returned array has a ``surface`` coordinate, and
-    stores the flux through each of the six surfaces of the box. The sign convention in that case
-    is such that positive sign corresponds to power flowing outside of the box, such that
-    summing over the ``surface`` dimension results in the total out-going power.
+    the plane. If the geometry is a 3D box, the total power coming out of the box is returned by
+    integrating the flux over all box surfaces (excpet the ones defined in ``exclude_surfaces``).
 
     Example
     -------