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

v1.7.1

What's Changed

• Code Coverage Improvements by @tylerflex in #516
• fixed deprecation warning with new copy_on_validation by @tylerflex in #537
• Smaller tolerance for root-finding in mesh generation by @weiliangjin2021 in #538
• User-specified medium for diffraction by @shashwat-sh in #540

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.7.1

v1.7.0

What's Changed

• Setting pydantic copy on validation to false by @momchil-flex in #507
• refactor near2far internals by @tylerflex in #509
• Support PolySlab along x/y axis by @weiliangjin2021 in #505
• Replace scipy with pyroots in mesher by @weiliangjin2021 in #513
• Momchil/small updates by @momchil-flex in #514
• remove webplots plugin by @tylerflex in #515
• add more log for auth when failed by @lei-flex in #510
• Diffraction efficiency monitor by @shashwat-sh in #506
• Reorganizing requirements; removing plotly by @momchil-flex in #528
• Fix conductivity units by @shashwat-sh in #529
• Fix a typo in polyslab sidewall angle doc by @weiliangjin2021 in #530
• Allow a sim size of 0 along a dimension for diffraction monitors by @shashwat-sh in #532
• Update docstring for Courant factor by @weiliangjin2021 in #533
• Momchil/updates by @momchil-flex in #531

New Contributors

• @lei-flex made their first contribution in #510

Full Changelog: v1.6.3...v1.7.0

v1.6.3

What's Changed

• added type field to dataarray in file by @tylerflex in #501
• fixes some warnings from code quality anlayzer by @tylerflex in #500

Full Changelog: v1.6.2...v1.6.3

v1.6.2

What's Changed

• Fixed bug in computing angles from wave numbers by @shashwat-sh in #494
• fix position bug in sim_data.plot_field() by @tylerflex in #496
• Removing restriction for near2far monitors with symmetry by @momchil-flex in #497

Full Changelog: v1.6.1...v1.6.2

v1.6.1

What's Changed

• Fixed docstrings for n2f monitors by @shashwat-sh in #489

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.6.1

v1.6.0

What's Changed

• tuple units supported, added to mediums by @tylerflex in #442
• Raise error if login failed after MAX_ATTEMPTS by @momchil-flex in #445
• Refactor tidy3d data by @tylerflex in #425
• enable self type annotation by @tylerflex in #448
• fix throw KeyError exception when sources element is not correct by @JunchengXue in #456
• Added option to exclude data from json by @tylerflex in #453
• frontend part of precision switching by @dbochkov-flexcompute in #449
• performance improvements for saving / loading .hdf5 by @tylerflex in #451
• Rearranging requirements and removing plugins from tidy3d init by @momchil-flex in #452
• Refactor SimulationData normalization once again by @momchil-flex in #455
• Replaced nlopt with scipy in dispersion fitter by @tylerflex in #457
• fix monitors validator iteration over None by @JunchengXue in #458
• added test to check if intersections caught where two boxes touch by @tylerflex in #462
• raise better error if sel_kwarg supplied when not needed by @tylerflex in #463
• Revamped server and client side n2f by @shashwat-sh in #454
• load Tidy3dBaseModel objects without validation by @tylerflex in #461
• Fix code examples by @tylerflex in #465
• Splitting simulation file into json + extra data for submitting to server by @momchil-flex in #467
• added script to generate python script from json file by @tylerflex in #464
• Support negative sidewall angle for slanted polyslab by @weiliangjin2021 in #471
• Removed the tight option for discretizing components by @shashwat-sh in #474
• S matrix tool incorporates element mapping and row-wise computation by @tylerflex in #460
• Change default upper bound of eps_inf in fitter to 10 by @weiliangjin2021 in #475
• Add materials from Rakic LD model by @weiliangjin2021 in #470
• Unifying FluxMonitor and Near2FarMonitor to subclass from SurfaceIntegrationMonitor by @momchil-flex in #476
• volume and surface areas for geometric primitives by @dbochkov-flexcompute in #473
• fix tests by @tylerflex in #477
• added .abs property to DataArray by @tylerflex in #482
• warn if freq / time supplied to plot_field(), replace with f / t by @tylerflex in #483
• S_matrix element_mappings as tuple by @tylerflex in #478
• changed name of mode solver monitor in mode_solver.sim_data by @tylerflex in #484
• raise DeprecationWarning if user calls ModeSolverData.plot_field by @tylerflex in #485
• Small n2f bug fix for excluded surfaces and added a validator by @shashwat-sh in #480
• Fix to zero-dim monitor when applying symmetry by @momchil-flex in #486
• error if monitor.freqs is empty by @tylerflex in #487
• save and load None in hdf5 files by @tylerflex in #488

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0

v1.5.0

What's Changed

• test all docstrings, skip explicitly by @tylerflex in #413
• update black and setuptools by @tylerflex in #418
• Dispersive fitter for lossless media by @weiliangjin2021 in #419
• Fix units for the offset parameter in GaussianPulse by @weiliangjin2021 in #420
• Momchil/shapely by @momchil-flex in #421
• Make tidy3d components immutable by @tylerflex in #408
• Reorganize geometry.py by @tylerflex in #417
• not to get credentials token in every api call by @JunchengXue in #426
• fix incorrect source mapping by @JunchengXue in #424
• some code improvements by @joamatab in #416
• improvement and fixes to docs by @tylerflex in #428
• Added extend option to simulation.discretize by @momchil-flex in #430
• refactored type annotation to be able to resuse union types by @tylerflex in #429
• Update docstring in fitter.from_file by @weiliangjin2021 in #431
• Sort_by -> filter_pol in ModeSpec, updated updater by @momchil-flex in #432
• Add Au_RakicLorentzDrude1998 to material_library by @weiliangjin2021 in #433
• Complex-valued field fixes by @shashwat-sh in #434
• Precision and complex/real switching, and derivative improvement in mode solver by @weiliangjin2021 in #435
• Removing type casting in TypedArray by @momchil-flex in #436
• Fixing override structure when precison issue comes in by @weiliangjin2021 in #438
• Fixing indexing in parse_structures for contains_3d by @weiliangjin2021 in #440

New Contributors

• @JunchengXue made their first contribution in #426
• @joamatab made their first contribution in #416

Full Changelog: v1.4.1...v1.5.0

v1.4.1

What's Changed

• bloch vectors forced to be real, not complex by @shashwat-sh in #407
• fixes polarization arrow at theta=0 by @tylerflex in #406
• Security Mitigation. by @momchil-flex in #405

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v1.4.1

v1.4.0

What's Changed

• fixes pylint bug with subscriptable None value by @tylerflex in #374
• added config file by @tylerflex in #348
• added GeometryGroup by @tylerflex in #366
• Change np.isclose to math.isclose in mesher to improve precision by @weiliangjin2021 in #375
• put all non-underscore tests in tox.ini by @tylerflex in #386
• smatrix uses batch instead of batch_data by @tylerflex in #383
• arrow length based on simulation bounds by @tylerflex in #387
• disable json and yaml io functions in data.py by @tylerflex in #385
• fixes polarization arrow S-P switching by @tylerflex in #388
• added explicit download file functions by @tylerflex in #384
• Symmetry documentation by @xin-flex in #390
• New boundaries API + Bloch BCs by @shashwat-sh in #344
• use shapely (not gdspy) for polygon merging from gds cell by @tylerflex in #378
• fixed pylint errors for pylint version 2.14.0 by @tylerflex in #397
• Fix to alpha in permittivity overlay by @momchil-flex in #396
• Tyler/pylint 2 14 by @tylerflex in #398
• download batch.json when batch.load or batch.download by @tylerflex in #394
• Monitor downsampling by @shashwat-sh in #376
• Reorganize and update descriptions in fit_web.py by @weiliangjin2021 in #403
• Fixed downsampled monitor cell counts by @shashwat-sh in #402
• BaseModel to Tidy3dBaseModel in material fitter by @weiliangjin2021 in #404
• update simulation when loading from web by @tylerflex in #401

New Contributors

• @xin-flex made their first contribution in #390

Full Changelog: v1.3.3...v1.4.0