IMD IMD is a point-and-click IDL application that can calculate the optical properties - reflectance, transmittance, and absorptance - of an arbitrary multilayer structure, i.e., a structure consisting of any number of layers of any thickness, and of any material. IMD includes a database of optical constants for over 150 materials, spanning the photon range from the X-ray region to the far infrared. It's also easy to use your own optical constants if necessary, or to create new X-ray optical constants for any compound, using the CXRO tabulated atomic scattering factors for 92 elements. IMD can be used for both modeling, and for parameter estimation by non-linear, least-squares curve-fitting (including confidence interval generation) to your own measured data. IMD can also compute the electromagnetic field intensity vs. depth in a multilayer structure.

Current Version:   3.1 License Type:  Free for Non-Commercial Use

Home Site: http://www.bell-labs.com/projects/imd/ Source Code Availability:   Yes Available Binary Packages: Debian Package:   No RedHat RPM Package:   No Other Packages:   No Targeted Platforms: IDL platform Software/Hardware Requirements: IDL 4.01B or higher (5.0 or higher for Windows platforms)

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