snompy#

A Python package for modelling scanning near-field optical microscopy measurements.

User guide

Start here for a friendly introduction to snompy, including explanations of how the models work, and examples showing how to use them.

User guide

API reference

Here you can find a detailed guide to the functions in snompy. You might want to check the user guide first if you’re a new user.

API reference

Development

Is something missing? Have you spotted a bug? Click here for details on how to raise feature requests, or contribute to snompy.

Development

FAQ

Look here for some answers to common questions about snompy.

Frequently asked questions

Cite us#

This package is open source and free to use. We only ask that you cite our accompanying paper, to acknowledge the time and effort that went into developing snompy. You can download our pre-print article here, and cite it as:

Tom Vincent, Xinyun Liu, Daniel Johnson, Lars Mester, Nathaniel Huang, Olga Kazakova, Rainer Hillenbrand, and Jessica Louise Boland, snompy: a package for modelling scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy, arXiv:2405.20948 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci], https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20948 (2024).

Keep an eye out for our journal publication, which is coming soon.