Change log of important builds/deployed versions in the whole mab2pd, mab2pd2 and mab2mm pedigree. Calibration for rotating compensator ellipsometers merged from development of CalibRCE.

Version 3.1.2.8 on 10.08.2026

• polishing UI
• deployed in the lab

Version 3.1.2.6 on 06.08.2026

• reworked the corrections for PSA nonidealities
• for RAE MM can only correct approximatelly (with assumptions)
• builds on linux
• test deployment in the lab

Version 3.1.2.2 on 24.06.2026

• working towards corrections of PSA nonidealities
• realized that there was a long-standing conceptual error

Version 3.1.1.4 on 19.05.2026

• added UI status glyph
• adding more detailed reports
• test deployment in the lab

Version 3.1.1.0 on 30.04.2026

• work on user reporting details of the calculations
• defined StructuredReport, assembling in workers and small actions
• also, now can make static build in Qt 6.11

Version 3.1.0.8 on 24.04.2026

• codifying the poly component rule
• proper treatment of inverted sense of rotation of components
• solution to RAE NCS with generalized input Stokes vector
• for all modes we have correction for PSG path nonidealities

Version 3.1.0.2 on 11.04.2026

• working towards all corrections for PSG and PSA path nonidealities
• solution of MM with generalized input Stokes vector
• finalizing the poly component, UI and handling in processConfiguration
• redesigned UI for Qt6

Version 3.0.9.0 on 16.02.2026

• bug fixes in RCE MM mode
• back-calculation in MM modes
• introducing poly component for optional static compensator
• now compiles on Qt 6.11 with minGW 13.2

Version 3.0.8.2 on 06.01.2026

• full 4×4 MM calculations with RCE
• test deployment in lab, but bugs appear

Version 3.0.7.7 on 24.12.2025

• implemented diagnostic modes for testing the analytic derivatives
• corrected calculation bugs and glitches
• now RCE NCS calibration works well

Version 3.0.7.0 on 14.12.2025

• work on the RCE NCE mode
• analytic derivatives on NCS by Po Co Ao
• optimizing in RCE NCS calibration now works, but buggy

Version 3.0.6.5 on 02.12.2025

• distributed fittable for RAE NC calibration
• using analytical derivatives of NC by Po Ao
• beta version deployed in lab
• supports RAE NCS with calibration and RAE MM modes

Version 3.0.5.9 on 19.11.2025

• reprocessing data with different config using stored resources
• pre-process corrections for RAE now work in the new resource mechanics

Version 3.0.5.6 on 16.11.2025

• another complete rewrite of the config and resource system

Version 3.0.5.4 on 08.11.2025

• processing in non-combined RAE modes (NC)
• plotting of “inverted” solutions (NC→S, NS→C)
• improved UI control for plots
• improved saving and exporting

Version 3.0.4.6 on 27.10.2025

• further background refactoring of the symbolic config system
• tuning the transport from UI state of configuration
• construction of resources for cases when reused components

Version 3.0.3.7 on 21.09.2025

• big background work on Configuration mechanics
• defining resources, assets, categories, roles
• processConfiguration central point of conversion from symbolic configuration to resources
• manifestation on AdvancedPanel UI

Version 3.0.2.4 on 29.04.2025

• saving of .epdx files for RAE NCS and MM modes
• early alpha version deployed in lab and used for real-world MM ellipsometry
• no RAE calibration yet, no resouce management

Version 3.0.2.2 on 27.04.2025

• plotting the RAE MM data

Version 3.0.2.1 on 26.04.2025

• changes to architecture, introducing Databank
• controllers FlowControl and Distributor also run in separate thread

Version 3.0.1.9 on 24.04.2025

• implemented RAE MM calculation
• calculates 3×3 MM measured with multiple polarizer azimuths
• adding 4th column from measurements with static compensator

Version 3.0.1.7 on 22.04.2025

• combined RAE with and without static compensator to NCS
• back-calculation in RAE NCS mode

Version 3.0.1.3 on 10.04.2025

• integrates development done in parallel in LookData 3 context
• RAE NC processing works

Version 3.0.0.7 on 08.02.2025

• basic architecture with Engine, FlowControl, Distributor and SmallAction
• loads and processes data with BigFileAnalyzer

Version 3.0.0.0 on 18.11.2024

• starting development of mab2mm
• will be combining mab2pd 3 and CalibRCE 3, using QBerr 3 libraries
• reusing UI and code written as CalibRCE 2.5
• this is a milestone, not a deployed version

Version 2.0.3.7 on 13.10.2022

• adding support for B field metadata
• saving static compensator metadata
• last version as mab2pd2

Version 2.0.3.3 on 21.10.2021

• full support for NCS processing
• Mueller N defined as N=m12=m21 (Fribourg convention)

Version 2.0.3.1 on 10.03.2021

• exporting raw alpha beta for external MM calculation
• added LabLISP environment, but no API integration

Version 2.0.3.0 on 29.09.2020

• start of git versioned development
• UI knobs for fine-tuning the strengths of corrections

Version 2.0.2.4 on 23.01.2020

• switching to NCS-based averaging and calibration

Version 2.0.2.1 on 02.11.2019

• calibration optimizing with Marquardt-Levenberg

Version 2.0.1.6 on 25.09.2019

• str-tru RAE diagnostic of polarizer, analyzer and detector
• correction for detector polarization selectivity
• correction for polarizer and analyzer leakage

Version 2.0.0.4 on 29.03.2019

• translating code from Pascal
• alpha beta to Psi Delta, with the flip and flop

Version 2.0.0.0 on 10.03.2019

• starting development of mab2pd2
• now written in Qt/C++
• this is a milestone, not a deployed version

Version 1.3.4.0 on 18.10.2018

• exporting flipped alpha beta
• imporoved handling of measurements with static compensator

Version 1.3.3.4 on 08.09.2012

• saving .epdx file format
• reading temperature and scans metadata from .big
• aux and tool metadata saving
• uses Berreman / QBerr 1 libraries for .epdx dataset handling

Version 1.2.0.0 on 11.04.2011

• loading data in .txt format from NSLS, Brookhaven
• automatic loading of AOI from .big file
• excluding bad spectra at selected analyzer azimuths
• option for averaging plain spectra vs weighted averaging
• export to Origin 8 via OLE container

Version 1.1.0.0 on 17.03.2010

• modification for UniFr data format
• support for RAE measurements with static compensator
• exporting Psi Delta files in Woollam DAT format

Version 1.0.0.0 in 2005 - 2009

• extension of legacy AB2PD - support for calibration and avaraging of more than 2 files
• written in Delphi/Pascal
• averaging and optimization on alpha beta coefficients
• exporting data to Origin via DDE

AB2PD Version C3 on 12.11.2004

• latest version written by Josef Humlicek
• written in some BASIC dialect
• averaging and optimization on Psi Delta
• only two files with different polarizer azimuths