Acknowledgements#

MPB originated as part of graduate research at MIT with initial contributions by Steven G. Johnson. We are also grateful to R. D. Meade et al. for developing a Fortran band-structure program that helped to inspire MPB and provided early numerical validation results, along with an algorithm for anisotropic sub-pixel averaging that MPB still uses in a modified form today (via an independent software implementation). Significant contributions to MPB have been made by Simpetus (which funded the Python API and several other major developments) and by the developer community on GitHub.

Referencing#

We kindly request that you cite the following reference in any publication for which you use MPB:

Financial Support#

MPB's development has been supported in part by Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 and 2 awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under award numbers 1647206 and 1758596. Initial development was supported in part by the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center program of the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMR-9400334, the U.S. Army Research Office under contract/grant DAAG55-97-1-0366, a National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship, and an MIT Karl Taylor Compton Fellowship.