User Guide

• Usage
• GUI Features
  • Useful hotkeys
  • Introduction to Elements
  • Placing Elements
  • Modifying Element parameters
  • Modifying waveguides
  • Editing WaveguideComposite Nodes
  • Converting elements placed in GUI into code
  • Useful Menu Commands
• Point-and-click workflow tutorial
• Python workflow tutorial
  • File system hierarchy
  • Structure of Element code
    • Element class
    • Libraries
    • Parameters
    • Build
  • Example of defining an Element class
  • Example of defining a Chip and inserting elements into it
    • Defining sampleholder types
  • Refpoints
  • KQCircuit’s Layers
  • Faces
    • Layer configuration files
    • Adding a new face
  • Opening Element or Chip from an IDE
• Macro development
  • Running the first example
  • Interacting with the KLayout application
    • Creating a new panel
    • Accessing the currently active panel
    • Using KLayoutView
  • Debugger
  • Reloading libraries
  • Examples
• Mask export
  • Tutorial
    • Basic mask script and export
    • Ground grid
    • Adding and modifying chips
    • Multi-face masks
    • Composite mask maps
• External simulation tools
  • Creating a simulation object
    • Simulation box
    • Ports
    • Example simulation
    • Simulation scripts
    • Geometry from Klayout GUI
  • Simulation export settings
  • Ansys export
    • Ansys scripts
      • Main scripts
      • Optional scripts
      • pyEPR
        • TLS-limited \(T_1\) estimation with EPR
  • Sonnet export
  • Gmsh/Elmer export
  • Run and export in one line
  • Elmer remote simulations workflow
• General Structure and Miscellaneous Utilities
  • File system hierarchy
  • Miscellaneous Utilities
• Creating cross section images
  • KLayout GUI XSection tool
  • XSection call in KQC code
  • Process files (.xs)
• Terminology