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    "license": {
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      "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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    {
      "Li2O_mol_pct": "about 48.4-48.5 (48.38 in cti1999; 48.45 in volk2008)",
      "default": true,
      "description": "Congruently melting composition, the standard commercial crystal.",
      "dopant": null,
      "id": "cln",
      "material": "LiNbO3",
      "name": "Congruent LiNbO3 (CLN)"
    },
    {
      "Li2O_mol_pct": null,
      "description": "Lithium tantalate, the 3m sibling crystal of LiNbO3; commercial SAW-grade crystal as measured in kushibiki1999 (composition not recorded in the research notes).",
      "dopant": null,
      "id": "lt-saw",
      "material": "LiTaO3",
      "name": "LiTaO3, SAW-grade (comparison material)"
    },
    {
      "Li2O_mol_pct": null,
      "description": "Lithium tantalate where the source does not state the composition (bulk 1965 crystal, or thin film).",
      "dopant": null,
      "id": "lt-unspecified",
      "material": "LiTaO3",
      "name": "LiTaO3, composition not stated (comparison material)"
    },
    {
      "Li2O_mol_pct": "about 50",
      "description": "Stoichiometric LiNbO3 doped with 1 mol% MgO, as labelled in gayer2008 Table 1.",
      "dopant": {
        "compound": "MgO",
        "element": "Mg",
        "mol_pct": 1
      },
      "id": "mgo1-sln",
      "name": "1 mol% MgO-doped stoichiometric LiNbO3 (MgO1-SLN)"
    },
    {
      "Li2O_mol_pct": "congruent melt",
      "description": "Congruent LiNbO3 doped with 5 mol% MgO, above the photorefractive threshold (>= 4.5 at.% MgO, bryan1984).",
      "dopant": {
        "compound": "MgO",
        "element": "Mg",
        "mol_pct": 5
      },
      "id": "mgo5-cln",
      "name": "5 mol% MgO-doped congruent LiNbO3 (MgO5)"
    },
    {
      "Li2O_mol_pct": "about 49.7-50",
      "description": "Li2O content close to 50 mol%; values labelled near-SLN in volk2008 are stored here.",
      "dopant": null,
      "id": "sln",
      "name": "Stoichiometric or near-stoichiometric LiNbO3 (SLN)"
    },
    {
      "Li2O_mol_pct": null,
      "description": "The source does not state the composition (for example 1960s crystals or density used in a cell-volume calculation).",
      "dopant": null,
      "id": "unspecified",
      "name": "Composition not stated"
    }
  ]
}