v1.8.0

What's Changed

• Polyslab: test coverage and fix an intersection plot issue by @weiliangjin2021 in #548
• Direct grid size specification in override structure by @weiliangjin2021 in #512
• broadband source feature by @dbochkov-flexcompute in #534
• ignore shapely STRtree deprecation warning by @tylerflex in #554
• Adding flux property and dot method to field data types by @momchil-flex in #552
• Add reference plane option for where the vertices of polyslab is defined by @weiliangjin2021 in #555
• Near2Far refactor phase 1: changes to storage and access of far fields by @shashwat-sh in #557
• Broader broadcasting in FieldData.dot by @momchil-flex in #559
• fix typo in discriminator kwarg by @tylerflex in #563
• added resonance finder plugin by @caseyflex in #560
• Field projection phase 1.5 by @shashwat-sh in #565
• fixed ResonanceFinder docstring by @caseyflex in #568
• Bumping default courant factor to 0.99 by @momchil-flex in #570
• add python3.11 to automated tests by @tylerflex in #573
• (hopefully??) Fix random windows test failures by @tylerflex in #572
• add custom field source by @tylerflex in #550
• Cylinder with sidewall angle by @weiliangjin2021 in #571
• Apodization for frequency monitors by @dbochkov-flexcompute in #574
• Mode sorting tool by @dbochkov-flexcompute in #562
• Validator for plane waves and boundary conditions by @shashwat-sh in #576
• Automatic generation of diffraction orders by @shashwat-sh in #581
• Making bloch_vec float by @momchil-flex in #582
• Avoid setting axis limits if lower and upper limits are equal by @tomflexcompute in #583
• Client-side exact projections by @shashwat-sh in #575
• Shrink frequency range for broadband sources to +/- 1.5 * fwidth by @dbochkov-flexcompute in #585
• Renormalized projected fields now returned as a copy of the data by @shashwat-sh in #587
• fix local web test and remove simulation.json by @tylerflex in #584
• Lower frequency bound and freezing seeds in fitter by @weiliangjin2021 in #589
• add .updated_copy method to Tidy3dBaseModel to copy with updated fields by @tylerflex in #588
• material library reorganization and added a few materials by @weiliangjin2021 in #586
• Fix eps_inf of GaAs Skauli in material database by @weiliangjin2021 in #598
• boundary spec hint the validation type by @JunchengXue in #600
• coordinate properties in DiffractionData use coords["coord_name"] by @tylerflex in #594
• Fix Ag_JohnsonChristy1972 that can cause divergence by @weiliangjin2021 in #602
• Bug fix for overlap_sort() modifying self by @dbochkov-flexcompute in #595
• check path_dir for existence in Batch.run() by @tylerflex in #592
• Updates to make user-side flux (and near2far) computation consistent by @momchil-flex in #579
• use TAG_TYPE_STR instead of hardcode "type" by @tylerflex in #604
• Changelog for 1.8.0 by @momchil-flex in #607
• Geometry.surfaces now excludes surfaces at infinity by @shashwat-sh in #609
• Making bloch vector check less strict using np.isclose by @momchil-flex in #606
• new gauge selection in mode tracking + a better testing by @dbochkov-flexcompute in #610
• Change from using logging module to tidy3d logger by @tomflexcompute in #611
• Fix for mode solver when the mode plane and the simulation are 0D by @momchil-flex in #612
• Update changelog for automatic medium detection by @shashwat-sh in #608
• More fixes for modes that are 0D along one dimension by @momchil-flex in #614
• Warning instead of error for bloch + planewave check, and reduce tol to 1e-6 by @shashwat-sh in #616
• Keep the warning but make tol default by @shashwat-sh in #619
• Rename global_min_dl to dl_min in AutoGrid by @weiliangjin2021 in #620

New Contributors

• @tomflexcompute made their first contribution in #583

Full Changelog: v1.7.1...v1.8.0