"Parallel FDTD Solutions allows me to take full advantage of my 4-processor AMD64 computer. [Lumerical's] technical support is second to none.
E. Chow, Agilent

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"I simulate 15X15X3 μm³ LED pixels including metallic backplace on a 20 node cluster. Prior to FDTD Solutions, this was not possible.
H. Greiner, Philips

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"I found it very easy to get parallel FDTD Solutions started. It actually worked so quickly at first that I thought I didn't have it set up properly!
B. Tharaldsen, ASML

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"FDTD Solutions has been instrumental in developing our silicon photonics platform.
M. Webster, Lightwire

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"We are extremely satisfied with the parallel version of FDTD Solutions and would recommend it to the scientific community at large.
M. Chowdhury, University of Maryland

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"FDTD Solutions is a professional software package which makes designing nanophotonic devices easy.
F. Yongqui, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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"As the administrator of a 1,680 processor computing cluster, I find FDTD Solutions trivial to install and maintain.
R. Baranowski, WestGrid

Features

»	2D and 3D FDTD simulation software
»	Design parameterization and hierarchical layout
»	Non-uniform meshes & automesh generator
»	Parallel computation on multi-cores, multiprocessors, and clusters
»	Bloch, periodic, absorbing (PML), symmetric and metal boundary conditions
»	Multipole material models and easy autofitting of material data to an arbitrary number of poles
»	Integrated scripting software environment for design automation
»	Mpeg movies to record simulation field/intensity dynamics
»	Pulsed and CW analysis
»	Integrated search utility to connect you to the FDTD Solutions Online Help

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Data import/export

»	BRO's ASAP ray-tracing software
»	SEM image import helps you simulate the real device
»	Matlab
»	GDSII

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Supported systems

»	32 and 64 bit Linux distributions
»	32 and 64 bit Windows
»	Single and multi-core desktops
»	Multiprocessor servers / workstations
»	High-performance computing (HPC) clusters
»	High-speed interconnect technologies
»	Scheduling software
»	Find out about specific technologies

Thin film silicon solar cell photovoltaic design

Metallic nanoparticle arrays on thin film silicon solar cells are able to dramatically increase the absorption of solar energy. Read on

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CMOS image sensor optimization

As CMOS pixel sizes decrease to reduce fabrication costs of digitial camera systems, there is a corresponding reduction in signal to noise and an increase in pixel cross-talk. Read on

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Nanowire grid polarizers

High-contrast polarization control devices composed of sub-wavelength metal gratings are replacing bulk optics, and FDTD Solutions is the design software of choice.
Read on

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DUV lithography simulation

Calculating the field intensity transmitted through sub-wavelength mask features must account for all diffraction, refraction, interference, absorption and polarization effects. Read on

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