Import options of OptiLayer

Also, you can easily import of data files from other commercial software packages.

OptiChar and OptiRE are able to import data from almost all well-known spectrophotometers and ellipsometers and widely used data formats.

• Perkin Elmer spectrophotometers
• Agilent Cary spectrophotometers
• Woollam ellipsometers (including depolarization measurements and reflectance/transmittance measurements)
• JCAMP-DX files
• Horiba ellipsometers
• Hitachi Spectrometer UH4150/U-4100 wavelength scan data
• Data from any ASCII file
• Two-column data files (X, Y files)
• Excel, Origin, etc.
• Automatic import of multiscan measurements
• Import of BBM movies
• Spectra from Excel (automatic import of all spectra in file)
• Import of Multiple data files

• TFCalc data files
• Essential Macleod data file
• FilmStar FILM file
• LZH design
• Sopra n,k data
• ZEMAX Glass
• Bühler Leybold Dispersion Data
• Bühler Leybold Monitoring Report
• Optical Design eXchange file (ODX)
• ODS files (OptiLayer Design Specification)

In the same way the *.dx (JCAMP-DX) data files can be converted to OptiChar/OptiRE measurement database.

This option can be used also when you import data from FTIR spectrophotometers.

Example (right panel): target transmittance is a Gaussian and it is that this target is not standard. Hence, it is not possible to specify such a target using the OptiLayer target generator. You can import complicated targets from Excel, Origin etc. using Copy/Paste (left and right panels below).

The same is valid for refractive indices/extinction coefficients/light sources/detectoors/design structures.

Woollam files don’t contain the information concerning wavelength units. For this reason after opening a file in the Woollam’s format it is necessary to make a proper selection in the Units in Woollam file box, specifying actual units for the wavelength in the Woollam file (right panel).

Modern Woollam ellipsometers measures depolarization and transmittance as well. Depolarization measurements are recorded for each incidence angle after Psi, Delta measurements in the Woollam files. Measurement transmittance files contain spectral units, angle of incidence, transmittance values and tolerances.

Example (panels below): import of Psi and Delta and depolarization measured at 45, 55, and 65 degrees.

Similar import procedures exist for Horiba and Sentech ellipsometers.

OptiChar performs smart scan of Excel file layout and represents all extracted data in the Import Spectra from Excel window. On the bottom all worksheets are listed and can be changed using tabs similar to Excel file, each extracted spectrum is represented in the list to the left with specification of column name, cell range and future measurement file name.

The names can be adjusted if necessary editing cells in the Measurement Name column. Import column allows to deselect some spectra excluding them from Import operation.

It is important to use Options dialog in order to set correct types of spectra, incidence angle and X- and Y-axis units.

Import Multiple Files option greatly simplifies measurement data import. Using this option you can import many files in one simple operation. File format is recognized automatically by OptiChar/OptiRE.

Import Multiple Files command opens the corresponding window. On the top of the window the currently opened folder is presented, it could be changed using a Browse button  at the right side. Reload button initiates reloading of all files in the current folder, it may be useful, if new files were added, or some files were deleted in this folder by some other program.

Instead of using Browse button it is possible to use drag-and-drop operation. Simply select the files of interest or a folder containing these files and drop it onto the right part of the window.

In the left pane of the RefractiveIndex.INFO database window it is possible to select Shelf section and in the Book & Page part – a particular material of interest. The right pane shows the related detailed information including refractive index dispersion and the initial origin of the data.

With Transfer button it is possible to transfer the data to the current Substrate database of you OptiLayer Problem Directory.

You can transfer the data to the Layer Material database or Substrate database of your current Problem Directory.

Transferred materials have the corresponding literature source in the comment field.

You can use transferred materials/substrates for design process or for verification of your characterization results.