CHARGE product reference manual

The CHARGE reference manual provides detailed descriptions of product features.

Related resources

• CHARGE 100: A self paced course intended for beginner to intermediate users with a focus on providing an understanding of the solver physics, simulation workflow and data analysis. The "My first simulation" section is a great getting started tutorial.  
• CHARGE in the KX: A large repository of Q&A content from the Lumerical community.
• Application gallery: Find example files, simulation methodologies and tips to help you get started quickly and easily. You can also browse the application gallery directly from within our products.

Solvers

• CHARGE solver introduction
• Units and normalization

Workflow

Simulation Workflow

Layout editor

• Layout Editor
• New Project Window
• Tabbed Toolstrip
• File tab
• View Tab
• Design Tab
• CHARGE Tab
• Running a simulation
• Toolbars
• View Port
• Objects Tree
• Script Prompt and Script Editor
• Changing the CAD layout

Material properties

• Optical materials
  • Optical Material Database
  • Default Optical Materials
  • Material Explorer
  • Optical Material Models
  • Creating Sampled Data Materials
  • Scripting Optical Materials
• Electrical and thermal materials
  • Electrical/Thermal Material Database
  • Electrical/Thermal Material Models
  • Semiconductors
  • Creating a New Semiconductor Material
  • Alloys
  • Creating a New Alloy Material
  • Quaternary Alloys
  • Alloy Mole Fraction
  • Fluids
  • Scripting Electrical Materials
  • Scripting Thermal Materials
• Mesh order

Simulation objects

• Reference Geometries and Geometric Features

Structures

• Primitives: Triangle, Rectangle, Polygon, Circle, Ring, Waveguide, Sphere, Pyramid, Planar solid, 2D rectangle, 2D polygon
• Layer builder
• Dataset builder
• Equation interpreter

Groups

• Groups
• Structure Groups

Simulation

• Simulation Region
• Partitioned volume
• CHARGE solver
• Mesh constraint

Doping

• Constant
• Diffusion
• Implant
• Import

Sources

• Bulk
• Optical
• Delta (Point source)
• Import Temperature
• Import Heat

Monitors

• Charge
• Electrical field
• Bandstructure
• Current flux
• Temperature

Boundary conditions

• Electrical
• Thermal

Import

• GDSII
• STL
• STEP

Optimizations and sweeps

Learn how to run parameter sweep, optimization, yield analysis and s-parameter analysis tasks.

• Parameter sweeps
  • Sweep scripting commands
  • Nested Sweeps
  • Running parameter sweeps without the CAD
• Optimization
  • Optimization scripting commands
• Monte Carlo analysis
  • Monte Carlo scripting commands
• S-parameter matrix sweep
• Workflow management

 Result analysis

• Visualizer and figure settings
• Visualizer and figure windows