: a salt containing an anionic grouping of niobium and oxygen
Examples of niobate in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebLithium niobate, for example, has better modulator properties than silicon, and Marpaung has shown in work that is still undergoing peer review that lithium niobate could offer comparable high-resolution filtering via Brillouin scattering.—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Dec. 2023 The group fabricated their device using CFRP, sodium potassium niobate (KNN) nanoparticles, and epoxy resin.—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023 The 794 nm photon interacts with a lithium-niobate crystal doped with thulium, so that the photon’s state becomes stored in the crystal.—Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 19 June 2019
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