titanate

[tahyt-n-eyt]

noun

Chemistry.

1. a salt of titanic acid.

titanate

/ ˈtaɪtəˌneɪt /

noun

1. any salt or ester of titanic acid

Word History and Origins

Origin of titanate¹

First recorded in 1830–40; titan(ic acid) + -ate ²

Example Sentences

"Strontium titanate has electro-optic effects 40 times stronger than the most-used electro-optic material today. But it also works at cryogenic temperatures, which is beneficial for building quantum transducers and switches that are current bottlenecks in quantum technologies," explained the study's senior author Jelena Vuckovic, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford.

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"At low temperature, not only is strontium titanate the most electrically tunable optical material we know of, but it's also the most piezoelectrically tunable material," said Christopher Anderson, co-first author and now a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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Strontium titanate is not a newly discovered substance.

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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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Perovskites are named after their structural resemblance to the mineral calcium titanate perovskite, and are well known for their fascinating properties that can be applied in wide-ranging fields such as solar cells, lighting and catalysis.

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