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Working principle of a patterned half-wave plate for (a) x-polarized incident light and (b) y-polarized incident light. Captured polarized optical microscope images under (c) parallel polarizers and (d) crossed polarizers. Scale bar=50 μm. Abbreviations: A, analyzer; P, polarizer.
