Simulation of EELS spectra

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It seems easy to simulate the results of electron-energy-loss spectroscopy 
(EELS) with the DDA. The trick is to replace the plane incident wave in the DDA 
by the field of a swift electron.

It is described in N.W. Bigelow, A. Vaschillo, V. Iberi, J.P. Camden, and D.J. 
Masiello, “Characterization of the electron- and photon-driven plasmonic 
excitations of metal nanorods,” ACS Nano 6, 7497–7504 (2012).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn302980u

The corresponding proof-of-principle code "e-DDA" based on DDSCAT 7.1 is freely 
available at 
http://faculty.washington.edu/masiello/Masiello_Group_Website/e-DDA.html

Original issue reported on code.google.com by yurkin on 2 Oct 2012 at 4:44

[myurkin]

The work on this issue is performed in the branch "eels" - https://github.com/adda-team/adda/tree/eels, authored by @to266. However, the branch itself need to be merged as well at some point.