barium titanate

American

noun

Chemistry.

a crystalline compound, BaTiO 3 , used to make ferroelectric ceramics for capacitors and also used in transducers.

barium titanate British

noun

a crystalline ceramic used in capacitors and piezoelectric devices. Formula: BaTiO 3

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Its nonlinear optical response was 20 times greater than that of lithium niobate, the leading nonlinear optical material, and nearly triple that of barium titanate, the previous cryogenic benchmark.

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Barium titanate belongs to the perovskite group of materials, where a titanium ion resides within an oxygen octahedral cage.

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The researchers, led by UW-Madison geologist and crystal specialist Huifang Xu, grew nanocrystals of two common crystals, zinc oxide and barium titanate, and placed them in water.

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Other research teams have previously made nanogenerators out of inorganic semiconducting materials, such as zinc oxide or barium titanate.

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Its new feature is a thin slice of crystalline barium titanate.

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