A vehicle pane with a light guide layer on the pane inner face and a lighting device which introduces light of a light source into the light guide layer by means of a light-coupling device. The light-coupling device has at least one light-coupling element that has a base surface and is optically connected to a light guide layer inner face, which faces the vehicle interior, via the base surface. The light-coupling element may have a light-coupling region which lies opposite the base surface and on which the light source has at least one LED is positioned, said light source emitting light into the light-coupling element via the light-coupling region.

A substrate holding board includes a first layer and a second layer forming an interfacial surface with the first layer. The first layer and the second layer contain diamond-like carbon. A refractive index of the first layer in a wavelength is higher than a refractive index of the second layer in the wavelength. A distance from the second layer to a topmost surface of the substrate holding board is smaller than a thickness of the first layer.

A method of manufacturing a thin film is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of crystalline hexagonal tungsten trioxide particles, size-reducing the crystalline hexagonal tungsten trioxide particles by grinding to produce crystalline hexagonal tungsten trioxide nanostructures, and coating the crystalline hexagonal tungsten trioxide nanostructures onto a substrate to produce a thin film. An electrochromic multi-layer stack is also provided.