nanoDDSCAT calculate scattering and absorption of light by targets with arbitrary geometries and complex refractive index.

• Link (29 Feb 2016)

Discrete Dipole Scattering C++ code (DDscat.C++) by Vasyl Choliy is a C++ version of the Fortran code DDSCAT for calculating scattering and absorption of light by irregular particles and periodic arrangement of irregular particles.

• Link (10 Oct 2013)

BUFF-EM is based on the volume-integral technique and can can handle objects with anisotropic and/or continuously spatially varying dielectric permittivity.

• Link (29 Feb 2016)

Discrete Dipole approximation for Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

DDEELS, a Fortran code for simulating Electron Energy (low) Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) performed on irregular particles, has been developed by Nicolas GEUQUET and Luc HENRARD. It is based on the Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA). The current version is DDEELS1.07alpha.

• Link (10 Nov 2011)

nanoDDSCAT+ combines the Discrete Dipole Scattering (DDSCAT) tool with the DDAConvert tool for a single workflow for custom shapes.

• Link (29 Feb 2016)

The DDA-SI toolbox for MATLAB:

1) Standard DDA for free space light scattering calculations

2) DDA with surface interaction (DDA-SI)

3) Discrete rotational symmetry-optimized DDA, T-matrix formulation (not include in release v0.1)

Download link for beta releases,

v0.1: http://code.google.com/p/dda-si/

v0.2: https://github.com/dalerxli/dda-si

Functions from the Optical Tweezers Toolbox may be required: https://au.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/73541-ott-optical-tweezers-toolbox

The functions are for coordinate transformation, generating beam shape coefficients for arbitrary illumination, vector spherical wave functions etc.

Please cite the accompanying paper:

Vincent. L.Y. Loke, M. Pinar Mengüç and Timo A. Nieminen, "Discrete dipole approximation with surface interaction: Computational toolbox for MATLAB", JQSRT, Vol. 27 Issue 10, pp.2293-2303 (2010), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2011.03.012

Associated theoretical paper for reference:

Vincent. L.Y. Loke and M. Pinar Mengüç, "Surface waves and atomic force microscope probe-particle near-field coupling: discrete dipole approximation with surface interaction", JOSA A, Vol. 27 Issue 10, pp.2293-2303 (2010), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/spotlight/summary.cfm?URI=josaa-27-10-2293

Book chapter:

Light, Plasmonics and Particles - Nanophotonics, Chapter 10 - Discrete dipole approximation with surface interaction, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99901-4.00018-4

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T-DDA (thermal discrete-dipole approximation)

The T-DDA calculates the steady-state temperature distribution within and surrounding an externally-illuminated target immersed in a homogeneous background medium.

• Link (27 Nov 2015)

This Fortran code by Yu You calculates the light scattering by an arbitrary particle, which has a non-unit electric permittivity as well a non-unit magnetic permeability. The code is based on the DDA code, DDSCAT 6.1, published by Draine and Flatau.

• Link, local copy (12 Apr 2010)

DDSCAT online tool by Nahil A. Sobh to Calculate scattering and absorption of electromagnetic waves by targets with arbitrary geometries and complex refractive index.

• Link (4 Feb 2014)

LiteBil is a visualisation tool for ADDA and DDSCAT shape files, developed at the Laboratory of Paper Coating and Converting ( Martti Toivakka) at Åbo Akademi University, Finnland.

• Link (25 Mar 2010) broken (9 Mar 2016)
  
• Link (19 Apr 2017)
• Local copy (9 Mar 2016)