- Native dispersive EM time-domain models (Drude/Lorentz/Sellmeier/Debye).
- Simulation benchmarks and performance improvements (especially in 3D).
- SOTA performance parity of billions of voxel updates / s.
- Explicit production-grade multi-GPU scaling.
- Enable full polarization control in mode solving beyond TE and TM.
- Official Conda precompiled package channel.
- Arbitrary spatial custom-current source profile.
- Broader material models:
- Anisotropic epsilon/mu tensors.
- Native dispersive epsilon(omega)/mu(omega) updates.
- Nonlinear Kerr/Pockels material models. (not core to chip design)
- Saturable gain/absorption models. (not core to chip design)
- Gyrotropic (magneto-optical) media. (not core to chip design)
- Built-in broadband materials library (predefined complex index datasets).
- Boundary-condition parity beyond PML:
- Bloch-periodic boundaries.
- Perfect-conductor boundary conditions.
- Symmetry-exploitation for optimization (mirror/rotation domain reduction).
- Integrated frequency-domain solver (CW response).
- Integrated frequency-domain eigensolver (resonant modes) instead of external package.
- Better epsilon/mu and field import/export workflows.
- Advanced field-analysis parity:
- DTFT/FFT field-spectrum monitor APIs.
- Mode decomposition / S-parameter pipeline.
- Energy-density spectra APIs.
- Maxwell stress tensor analysis. (not core to chip design)
- Near-to-far-field transforms. (not core to chip design)
- Dispersive material fitting plugin.
- Cylindrical-coordinate simulation mode. (not core to chip design)