How to Use lithium niobate in a Sentence

lithium niobate

noun

• However, other materials, such as lithium niobate and indium phosphide, should be able to exceed that.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2025
• Instead, lithium niobate — which is more stable and easier to fabricate, even if its properties don’t quite measure up with those of barium titanate — filled that role instead.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
• Frequency conversion allows one color of light to be converted into another, but conventional systems often depend on materials such as lithium niobate or gallium arsenide and can be difficult to make compact and scalable.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
• Okan Atalar and Amin Arbabian in Stanford’s electrical engineering department started with thin-film lithium niobate, a material often used for waveguides and optical switches in cellphones and communications systems.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Apr. 2022
• Photonics moves toward scale Researchers have also demonstrated wafer-level integration of lithium niobate modulators with silicon nitride photonic circuits, along with heterogeneous electronic-photonic optical receiver platforms.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026