Reply To: Absorption cross-section of AuNR excited by prism-based TIR

[Amrita Pati]

Hi Katsu,

I apologize for the delay in getting back to you! We are a bit understaffed this month. It can be a bit tricky to setup the TFSF source. I believe the first thing we can do is to make sure that the TFSF source has been setup correctly. You can disable the gold nanorods and then run the simulation and see what the absorption/scattering cross-section is. They should be 0 without the scatterer. It will be hard to predict the reason behind the peak at 530 nm (if it is physical/numerical artifact) without having a look at the simulation itself. Is your simulation based on any paper?

Regards,
Amrita