Patterning Tutorial
Mini-workshop/tutorial on design of microfabrication layout patterning masks.
Required software
- Layout editing software: KLayout preffered. LayoutEditor if you can afford the paid version.
Optional software (strongly encouraged)
- Text editor with syntax highlithing and whatever goodies you need for programming (e.g. Atom, Emacs, Vim,...)
- Python 3 + Pip + Packages
- Windows: Follow these instructions up to step 5.
- Mac OS/Linux: Usually comes pre-installed only with Python 2. Use package manager of your liking (e.g. Homebrew on Mac, APT-GET on Linux) to install Python 3.
- gdspy
- Documentation here
- Install using Pip:
python3 -m pip install gdspy
in command line/terminal
- tkinter
- Optional, used for real-time-ish visualization of patterns.
- Documentation here
- Install using Pip:
python3 -m pip install tk
in command line/terminal