NEWS

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terms 1.2.0

New features

• implemented basic import of .tmat.h5 T-matrices
• added 'Au2' built-in dielectric function based on Raschke et al Phys. Rev. B 86, 235147 (2012)
• added 'Ag2' built-in dielectric function based on Raschke et al Phys. Rev. B 91, 235137 (2015)

Documentation

• added vignette for .tmat.h5 import and comparison with tetrahedron of built-in spheres
• added vignette for .tmat.h5 import and comparison of spheroid T-matrix from SMARTIES and JCMsuite

Website

• convert to quarto vignettes
• updated list of publications

terms 1.0.2

Bug fix

• missing dependency on dielectric

Website

• new vignette illustrating rescaling for dispersive incident medium

terms 1.0.1

Website

• updated list of publications

User-facing changes

• new option to provide input wavelengths as an external file

terms 1.0.0

Website

New vignettes:

• Polarised orientation-averaged near fields
• Reproducing cartesian `Higher-Order Polarizability Tensors' for a dimer
• Validation against MSTM v4 for orientation-averaged cross-sections
• Validation against coupled-dipole approximation for far-field circular dichroism

Bug fix

• Block matrices LR and RL were swapped, resulting in a (small) error when computing scattering circular dichroism

User-facing changes

• MapOaQuantity [p] has a new format (polarised or unpolarised); if specific polarisation(s) are requested, they are taken from the Incidence keyword

New functionality

• implemented conversion of multipoles $l<=3$ into cartesian "alpha tensor"
• implemented polarised (L or R) orientation-averaged near-fields E2, B2, and LDOC (note: the results are incorrect inside spheres)

Low level changes

• calcOaExtField renamed calcOaNFUnpol
• calcOaLDOC renamed calcOaNF; now combines calculation of LDOC and field intensities (many terms are common)
• new routine alphaTensor

R utilities

• export_cubature() utility function to produce an incidence file suitable for TERMS from the cubs package.
• removed dependency on reshape2; using tidyr instead

terms 0.9.9

Website

• updated examples for release
• new version of pkgdown, some css tweaks

R code

• some helper functions for hdf5 format
• vignette schematics in x3d format

Fortran

• added support for hdf5
• added computation of local degree of optical chirality
• added computation of Stokes vectors and Mueller matrices
• multi-wavelength calculations of near-fields
• near field maps have more options (E, B, C) and include information about material regions

compilation

• Cmake is now used for building terms

terms 0.9.0

Website

• initial website using pkgdown

R code

• basic package structure
• examples in Rmd format ("vignettes")
• basic utilities in R/