In addition to research in electronic memory storage, potassium niobate is used in resonant doubling, a technique developed at the IBM Almaden Research Center.
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Strontium Barium Niobate is one of the few tetragonal tungsten bronze compounds without volatile elements making it a useful system for probing structure-property relations.
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It can replace calcite, titanium dioxide or lithium niobate in Glan Taylor prisms, Glan Thompson prisms, walk-off beam splitters and other optical components.
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Commonly used crystals are BBO ( ?-barium borate ), KDP ( potassium dihydrogen phosphate ), KTP ( potassium titanyl phosphate ), and lithium niobate.
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The simplest kind of EOM consists of a crystal, such as lithium niobate, whose refractive index is a function of the strength of the local electric field.
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Lithium niobate can be doped by magnesium oxide, which increases its resistance to optical damage ( also known as photorefractive damage ) when doped above the optical damage threshold.
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Lead Magnesium Niobate-Lead Titanate ( PMN-PT ) is a next-generation piezoelectric material with super high piezoelectric constant when ideal composition and orientation are obtained.
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In 2010, the journal " Science " reported that the golden ratio is present at the atomic scale in the magnetic resonance of spins in cobalt niobate crystals.
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It is the main precursor to all materials made of niobium, the dominant application being alloys, but other specialized applications include capacitors, lithium niobate, and optical glasses.
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Strontium Barium Niobate is a ferroelectric material commonly used in single crystal form in electro-optics, acousto-optics, and photorefractive non-linear optics for its photorefractive properties.