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Yes. "Inexpensive polarized sunglasses have a thin film applied on one side of the lens," Dr. Park said. "Higher quality lenses have film laminated between two layers of lens material, preventing ...

Abstract: The interdomain screening effect of the multidomain ferroelectric thin film is investigated within the framework ... It is revealed that the depolarization field in partially polarized ...

Moreover, it presents the advantage of a sizable chiroptical activity. Interestingly, thin films of compound 1 are photo- and electroluminescent and they display circularly polarized (CP) luminescence ...

“Potential applications are thin-film flexible piezoelectric-photovoltaic ... wurtzite and semiconducting, a negatively polarized ZnMgO region is formed near the Se layer,” the scientists ...