The Roadmap

OghmaNano is designed to be a living project. The aim is not simply to produce another simulator, but to build an accessible platform that brings advanced opto-electronic modelling into the hands of a much wider community. Our priorities are guided by three principles:

• Accessibility: lowering the barrier to entry so that experimentalists, students, and researchers can all use the same tools with minimal training.
• Generality: extending the platform step-by-step towards a truly general multiphysics environment for opto-electronics, spanning electrical, optical, and thermal effects.
• Responsiveness: evolving rapidly in response to the needs of collaborators and the wider user community, with regular incremental releases rather than infrequent major overhauls.

The exact sequence of new features is not fixed - OghmaNano develops organically, with priorities shaped by user demand and emerging research opportunities. If there is a capability you would like to see added, feature requests can be made through the OghmaNano forum. All requests are carefully considered, but development priorities are balanced against wider project goals.

Recent updates have expanded the optical, electrical, and geometry engines, while future work will focus on making simulations more intuitive, faster to run, and easier to share. Alongside technical improvements, significant effort is being invested in examples, demonstrations, and documentation to make OghmaNano not only powerful but also enjoyable to learn and teach with.

In short: OghmaNano is never “finished.” Each release adds capabilities, fixes issues, and refines the experience, steadily bringing us closer to the long-term vision of a truly general-purpose opto-electronic simulation engine for both research and education.