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Achromatic polarization control in the visible

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A special perovskite material design is demonstrated to operate as a wideband, achromatic quarter-wave plate.

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Fig. 1: Schematic of various optical polarization phenomena observed in lead halide perovskite crystals and thin films.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Randy P. Sabatini

  2. ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Girish Lakhwani

  3. Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Girish Lakhwani

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Sabatini, R.P., Lakhwani, G. Achromatic polarization control in the visible. Nat. Photon. 15, 797–799 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00897-6

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