TFStudio takes a coating from an idea to a design you can hand to the deposition chamber. Here's the short version of what's inside.
| Layer editor | Add, remove, reorder and edit their thicknesses. Design the front and back of a part separately. |
| Materials | Pick from a large built-in library of optical materials, or enter your own measured data. |
| Set your goals | Set up the coating specification and optimize. |
| See inside the stack | Use various analysis tools. |
| History | Every change is remembered. Step back and forth freely. |
| Optimize | Using various optimization methods. |
| Synthesize | Using needle and gradual evolution algorithms. |
| Tidy up | Clean up a finished design — combine and drop layers too thin to matter — then re-tune. |
| Filter wizard | Generate a bandpass filter design from a handful of simple inputs. |
| Performance | Reflection, transmission and absorption. |
| Color | See the coating's color as a rendered swatch under everyday lighting. |
| Live what-ifs | Drag a slider and watch how a thicker layer or a different material changes the result. |
| Deeper looks | Electric field through the stack, admittance, group delay, ellipsometry, and weighted averages for daylight and solar. |
| Tolerances | Find out how forgiving a design is — which layers are fussy. |
| Monitoring simulation | Simulate actually depositing the coating, with the kind of measurement errors a real chamber sees, to know how it'll turn out before you run it. |
| Hand off to the chamber | Step through the deposition layer by layer and export files your chamber's monitoring software can read. |
| Reports | Generate a clean summary of a design to share or archive. |
| Runs on | Windows 7/10/11. |
| Works offline | No internet needed. |
| Disk space | 500 MB |
| Languages | English and Russian. |
| Status | Early access. |
TFStudio