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World Journal of Condensed Matter Physics, 2011, 1, 6-11 doi:10.4236/wjcmp.2011.11002 Published Online February 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wjcmp) Birefringence Caused by the Presence of Permanent Dipoles and Its Possible Threat on the Accuracy of Traditional Surface Plasmon 1 2 1 1,2,3 Po-Yu Tsai , Chien-Jung Liao , Wen-Kai Kuo , Chungpin Liao 1Graduate School of Electro-Optic and Materials Science, National Formosa University (NFU), Huwei, Yunlin, Taiwan, China; 2Advanced Research and Business Laboratory (ARBL), Taichung, Taiwan, China; 3Chakra Energetics, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan, China. Email: {marveltsai, lchienjung}@, wkkuo@.tw, cpliao@ Received January 6th th st , 2011; revised January 28 , 2011; accepted February 1 , 2011. ABSTRACT In arriving at the more intuitive “scattering form” of the Fresnel equations, microscopic physical electric and magnetic dipoles were rigorously employed as the source of electromagnetic waves by Doyle et al. Motivated by such an ap- proach, the authors started to speculate how the incorporation of permanent dipoles might affect Brewster angle of a specific optical material. It is found that in the presence of permanent dipoles, not only is the Brewster angle dependent on the incident light power as well as the dipole orientation, but also that two conjugate incident light paths result in distinctively different refractions. Experiments on dipole-engineered polyvinylidene fluoride films show that by way of adding/reducing permanent dipole density and varying orientations, the aforementioned theoretical predictions can be evidenced unambiguously in the visible light range. Further, effective polarization density can be quantified from the above experiments subjected to different dipole engineering processes. As a resu