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New photonic integrated circuits offer high performance and scalable manufacturing

Electro-optical devices that use wafers of lithium tantalate on an insulator have properties similar or superior to those of state-of-the-art lithium niobate-on-insulator wafers. They can also be made in larger volumes, at lower cost and using existing manufacturing infrastructure.

This is a summary of: Wang, C. et al. Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for volume manufacturing. Nature 629, 784–790 (2024).

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02582-4

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