This page contains the source code and installation instructions for the electron-driven discrete-dipole approximation (e-DDA) 1.1 code.  Version 1.1 of the e-DDA code is built upon Draine’s DDSCAT v7.1.  We also make available our in-house JobLauncher 1.0 code, which is designed to improve calculation speed and efficiency by parallelizing the e-DDA across a cluster.

e-DDA is gratis, subject to the GNU General Public License. You may copy, distribute, and/or modify the software identified as under this agreement. If you distribute copies of this software, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have.

If you use e-DDA then we request that you cite the following paper that explains its implementation:

Nicholas W. Bigelow, Alex Vaschillo, Vighter Iberi, Jon P. Camden, and David J. Masiello, Characterization of the Electron- and Photon-Driven Plasmonic Excitations of Metal Nanorods, ACS Nano 6, 7497 (2012).

You may install e-DDA and JobLauncher either by using this python script or manually by following these instructions:

e-DDA:

You may download all e-DDA files by clicking edda1.1.zip.  To install the code simply download DDSCAT v7.1 and move the e-DDA *.f90 files and Makefile into the DDSCAT /src directory.  Compile and run the code exactly as you would with DDSCAT.  The only difference is that you must use the supplied ddscat.par file, which contains new information such as the incident electron’s path trajectory and kinetic energy.

JobLauncher:

For your convenience we have also provided a program that will distribute e-DDA calculations across a computer cluster.  Download the source code and documentation from here, compile with the command “make all”, and read the documentation to learn about usage.

Please email us if you have any questions.