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Methods Assistant

Describe your problem and get a recommendation of the right numerical method (Mie, BEM, DGTD, RCWA…), relevant references, and a direct link to the tool in our Lab.

Methods Assistant

Nanophotonics solver recommendations
Retrieval

Ask about methods

Ask a physics or numerical-method question. I search a corpus of computational-photonics course notes and return relevant passages. With an API key, Claude synthesizes an answer from the retrieved context.
First query downloads the embedding model (~20 MB, cached).

Anthropic API Key

Enter your key to enable AI-powered answers. It is stored only in your browser's localStorage and sent directly to api.anthropic.com.

How it works: your query is embedded in the browser with all-MiniLM-L6-v2 (via Transformers.js) and matched against pre-computed chunks of course notes. With an API key, Claude Haiku synthesizes an answer from the retrieved passages. Without a key, passages are shown verbatim.