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Selected properties and applications of some other coating materials such as fluorides, metals, and organic substances are briefly discussed. With particular respect to molecular layers, some fundamentals of the classical and semiclassical treatments of the optical properties of molecules are introduced.

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Stenzel, O. (2014). Other UV/VIS Coating Materials. In: Optical Coatings. Springer Series in Surface Sciences, vol 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54063-9_8

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