Applications of piezoresponse force microscopy in materials research: from inorganic ferroelectrics to biopiezoelectrics and beyond

Quantitative measurements of electromechanical response with a combined optical beam and interferometric atomic force microscope

(2015) Aleksander Labuda et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Single- and Multi-Frequency Detection of Surface Displacements via Scanning Probe Microscopy

(2015) Konstantin Romanyuk et al.   MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS

Local manifestations of a static magnetoelectric effect in nanostructured BaTiO3–BaFe12O9composite multiferroics

(2015) Harsh Trivedi et al.   Nanoscale

Controlling domain wall motion in ferroelectric thin films

(2015) L. J. McGilly et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Subcritical switching dynamics and humidity effects in nanoscale studies of domain growth in ferroelectric thin films

(2015) Cédric Blaser et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Strong piezoelectricity in single-layer graphene deposited on SiO2 grating substrates

(2015) Gonçalo da Cunha Rodrigues et al.   Nature Communications

Deep Data Analysis of Conductive Phenomena on Complex Oxide Interfaces: Physics from Data Mining

(2014) Evgheni Strelcov et al.   ACS Nano

Exploring Local Electrostatic Effects with Scanning Probe Microscopy: Implications for Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Triboelectricity

(2014) Nina Balke et al.   ACS Nano

Symmetry Breaking and Electrical Frustration during Tip-Induced Polarization Switching in the Nonpolar Cut of Lithium Niobate Single Crystals

(2014) Anton V. Ievlev et al.   ACS Nano

Big-Data Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction Analysis for Understanding Epitaxial Film Growth Processes

(2014) Rama K. Vasudevan et al.   ACS Nano

Piezoelectric properties of graphene oxide: A first-principles computational study

(2014) Zhenyue Chang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Electrostrictive and electrostatic responses in contact mode voltage modulated scanning probe microscopies

(2014) Eugene A. Eliseev et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Mechanisms of electromechanical coupling in strain based scanning probe microscopy

(2014) Qian Nataly Chen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Humidity effects on tip-induced polarization switching in lithium niobate

(2014) A. V. Ievlev et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Voltage induced local hysteretic phase switching in silicon

(2014) Jagmeet S. Sekhon et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

More ferroelectrics discovered by switching spectroscopy piezoresponse force microscopy?

(2014) Hongchen Miao et al.   EPL

Preface to Special Topic: Piezoresponse force microscopy and nanoscale phenomena in polar materials

(2014) Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Ferroelectric-like response from the surface of SrTiO3 crystals at high temperatures

(2014) Shubhra Jyotsna et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Electrochemical strain microscopy of silica glasses

(2014) R. Proksch   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Direct Observation of Ferroelectric Domains in Solution-Processed CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite Thin Films

(2014) Yasemin Kutes et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Tuning of the Depolarization Field and Nanodomain Structure in Ferroelectric Thin Films

(2014) Céline Lichtensteiger et al.   NANO LETTERS

Self-consistent modeling of electrochemical strain microscopy of solid electrolytes

(2014) Alexander Tselev et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Piezoelectricity of single-atomic-layer MoS2 for energy conversion and piezotronics

(2014) Wenzhuo Wu et al.   NATURE

Bandgap tuning of multiferroic oxide solar cells

(2014) R. Nechache et al.   Nature Photonics

Anomalous piezoelectricity in two-dimensional graphene nitride nanosheets

(2014) Matthew Zelisko et al.   Nature Communications

Deterministic arbitrary switching of polarization in a ferroelectric thin film

(2014) R. K. Vasudevan et al.   Nature Communications

Reversible switching of in-plane polarized ferroelectric domains in BaTiO3(001) with very low energy electrons

(2014) J. E. Rault et al.   Scientific Reports

Electrical Modulation of the Local Conduction at Oxide Tubular Interfaces

(2013) Ying-Hui Hsieh et al.   ACS Nano

Universality of Polarization Switching Dynamics in Ferroelectric Capacitors Revealed by 5D Piezoresponse Force Microscopy

(2013) Yunseok Kim et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Domain Wall Conduction and Polarization-Mediated Transport in Ferroelectrics

(2013) Rama K. Vasudevan et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Ferroelectric Domain Wall Injection

(2013) Jonathan R. Whyte et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

An in situ diffraction study of domain wall motion contributions to the frequency dispersion of the piezoelectric coefficient in lead zirconate titanate

(2013) Shruti B. Seshadri et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Domain wall roughness and creep in nanoscale crystalline ferroelectric polymers

(2013) Z. Xiao et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity in epitaxial BiMnO3 ultra-thin films

(2013) G. M. De Luca et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Nanoscale studies of ferroelectric domain walls as pinned elastic interfaces

(2013) Patrycja Paruch et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PHYSIQUE

Preface to Special Topic: Selected Papers from the Piezoresponse Force Microscopy Workshop Series: Part of the Joint ISAF-ECAPD-PFM 2012 Conference

(2013) Jiangyu Li et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Full field electron spectromicroscopy applied to ferroelectric materials

(2013) N. Barrett et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Nanoscale piezoelectric and ferroelectric behaviors of seashell by piezoresponse force microscopy

(2013) Tao Li et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Piezoelectric, ferroelectric properties of multiferroic YMnO3 epitaxial film studied by piezoresponse force microscopy

(2013) Runlan Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH

The Effect of Hydrogen and Fluorine Coadsorption on the Piezoelectric Properties of Graphene

(2013) Mitchell T. Ong et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Magnetic Field-Induced Ferroelectric Switching in Multiferroic Aurivillius Phase Thin Films at Room Temperature

(2013) Lynette Keeney et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY

Mechanical Control of Electroresistive Switching

(2013) Yunseok Kim et al.   NANO LETTERS

Probing Local Ionic Dynamics in Functional Oxides at the Nanoscale

(2013) Evgheni Strelcov et al.   NANO LETTERS

Flexural Electromechanical Coupling: A Nanoscale Emergent Property of Boron Nitride Bilayers

(2013) Karel-Alexander N. Duerloo et al.   NANO LETTERS

Tuning of multifunctional Cu-doped ZnO films and nanowires for enhanced piezo/ferroelectric-like and gas/photoresponse properties

(2013) Wei Li Ong et al.   Nanoscale

Tightly anchored tissue-mimetic matrices as instructive stem cell microenvironments

(2013) Marina C Prewitz et al.   NATURE METHODS

Room Temperature Nanoscale Ferroelectricity in MagnetoelectricGaFeO3Epitaxial Thin Films

(2013) Somdutta Mukherjee et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Glucose Suppresses Biological Ferroelectricity in Aortic Elastin

(2013) Yuanming Liu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Room-Temperature Multiferroic HexagonalLuFeO3Films

(2013) Wenbin Wang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Ferroelectric Organic Materials Catch Up with Oxides

(2013) D. A. Bonnell   SCIENCE

Diisopropylammonium Bromide Is a High-Temperature Molecular Ferroelectric Crystal

(2013) D.-W. Fu et al.   SCIENCE

Magnetic switching of ferroelectric domains at room temperature in multiferroic PZTFT

(2013) D.M. Evans et al.   Nature Communications

Role of domain walls in the abnormal photovoltaic effect in BiFeO3

(2013) Akash Bhatnagar et al.   Nature Communications

Correlative Multimodal Probing of Ionically-Mediated Electromechanical Phenomena in Simple Oxides

(2013) Yunseok Kim et al.   Scientific Reports

Ionically-Mediated Electromechanical Hysteresis in Transition Metal Oxides

(2012) Yunseok Kim et al.   ACS Nano

Beyond Condensed Matter Physics on the Nanoscale: The Role of Ionic and Electrochemical Phenomena in the Physical Functionalities of Oxide Materials

(2012) Sergei V. Kalinin et al.   ACS Nano

High-Frequency Electromechanical Imaging of Ferroelectrics in a Liquid Environment

(2012) Nina Balke et al.   ACS Nano

Nanoscale Ferroelectricity in Crystalline γ-Glycine

(2012) Alejandro Heredia et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Electrical Control of Multiferroic Orderings in Mixed-Phase BiFeO3 Films

(2012) Yi-Chun Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Structural inhomogeneity and piezoelectric enhancement in ZnO nanobelts

(2012) Kasra Momeni et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

Minimum domain size and stability in carbon nanotube-ferroelectric devices

(2012) C. Blaser et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Coaxing graphene to be piezoelectric

(2012) Swapnil Chandratre et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Evidence of ferroelectricity and phase transition in pressed diphenylalanine peptide nanotubes

(2012) Igor Bdikin et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Magnetoelectric effect in AlN/CoFe bi-layer thin film composites

(2012) S. Narendra Babu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Local conductivity and the role of vacancies around twin walls of (001)−BiFeO3 thin films

(2012) S. Farokhipoor et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Microstructure and dielectric properties of piezoelectric magnetron sputtered w-ScxAl1−xN thin films

(2012) Agne Zukauskaite et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Intrinsic Piezoelectricity in Two-Dimensional Materials

(2012) Karel-Alexander N. Duerloo et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Electric field control of magnetism in multiferroic heterostructures

(2012) C A F Vaz   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Visualizing molecular polar order in tissues via electromechanical coupling

(2012) Denise Denning et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Direct observation of ferroelectric domain switching in varying electric field regimes using in situ TEM

(2012) C.R. Winkler et al.   MICRON

Switchable Induced Polarization in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructures

(2012) C. W. Bark et al.   NANO LETTERS

A ferroelectric memristor

(2012) André Chanthbouala et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Virus-based piezoelectric energy generation

(2012) Byung Yang Lee et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Origin of piezoelectric response under a biased scanning probe microscopy tip across a 180∘ferroelectric domain wall

(2012) Shiming Lei et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Thermal quench effects on ferroelectric domain walls

(2012) P. Paruch et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Random pinning limits the size of membrane adhesion domains

(2012) Thomas Speck et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Biological Ferroelectricity Uncovered in Aortic Walls by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy

(2012) Yuanming Liu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Domain wall nanoelectronics

(2012) G. Catalan et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Effect of flexoelectricity on electrostatic potential in a bent piezoelectric nanowire

(2012) Chenchen Liu et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Above-room-temperature ferroelectricity and antiferroelectricity in benzimidazoles

(2012) Sachio Horiuchi et al.   Nature Communications

Spectroscopic imaging in piezoresponse force microscopy: New opportunities for studying polarization dynamics in ferroelectrics and multiferroics

(2012) R.K. Vasudevan et al.   MRS Communications

Nonlinear Phenomena in Multiferroic Nanocapacitors: Joule Heating and Electromechanical Effects

(2011) Yunseok Kim et al.   ACS Nano

First-Order Reversal Curve Probing of Spatially Resolved Polarization Switching Dynamics in Ferroelectric Nanocapacitors

(2011) Yunseok Kim et al.   ACS Nano

Engineered Piezoelectricity in Graphene

(2011) Mitchell T. Ong et al.   ACS Nano

Piezoelectric properties and surface potential of green abalone shell studied by scanning probe microscopy techniques

(2011) T. Li et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Surface Domain Structures and Mesoscopic Phase Transition in Relaxor Ferroelectrics

(2011) Andrei Kholkin et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Conduction at Domain Walls in Insulating Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 Thin Films

(2011) Jill Guyonnet et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Quasi-one-dimensional domain walls in ferroelectric ceramics: Evidence from domain dynamics and wall roughness measurements

(2011) N. A. Pertsev et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Orientational imaging in polar polymers by piezoresponse force microscopy

(2011) Pankaj Sharma et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Preface to special topic: Piezoresponse force microscopy and nanoscale phenomena in polar materials

(2011) Sergei V. Kalinin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Finite element method simulation of the domain growth kinetics in single-crystal LiTaO3: Role of surface conductivity

(2011) Antoine Brugère et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Critical thickness for extrinsic contributions to the dielectric and piezoelectric response in lead zirconate titanate ultrathin films

(2011) Yaser Bastani et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Composition dependence of local piezoelectric nonlinearity in (0.3)Pb(Ni0.33Nb0.67)O3-(0.7)Pb(ZrxTi1−x)O3 films

(2011) F. Griggio et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Effect of AlN buffer layer properties on the morphology and polarity of GaN nanowires grown by molecular beam epitaxy

(2011) Matt D. Brubaker et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM)

(2011) Elisabeth Soergel   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Nanoscale polarization switching mechanisms in multiferroic BiFeO3thin films

(2011) H Béa et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Universality in Bacterial Colonies

(2011) Juan A. Bonachela et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Piezoresponse Force Microscopy: A Window into Electromechanical Behavior at the Nanoscale

(2011) D.A. Bonnell et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Nanoscale Control of Phase Variants in Strain-Engineered BiFeO3

(2011) Rama K. Vasudevan et al.   NANO LETTERS

High-Resolution Studies of Domain Switching Behavior in Nanostructured Ferroelectric Polymers

(2011) Pankaj Sharma et al.   NANO LETTERS

Individual GaN Nanowires Exhibit Strong Piezoelectricity in 3D

(2011) Majid Minary-Jolandan et al.   NANO LETTERS

An improved AFM cross-sectional method for piezoelectric nanostructures properties investigation: application to GaN nanowires

(2011) Xin Xu et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Mapping nanoscale elasticity and dissipation using dual frequency contact resonance AFM

(2011) A Gannepalli et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Recent advances in submolecular resolution with scanning probe microscopy

(2011) Leo Gross   Nature Chemistry

Measuring oxygen reduction/evolution reactions on the nanoscale

(2011) Amit Kumar et al.   Nature Chemistry

Efficiency enhancement in organic solar cells with ferroelectric polymers

(2011) Yongbo Yuan et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Thermodynamics of electromechanically coupled mixed ionic-electronic conductors: Deformation potential, Vegard strains, and flexoelectric effect

(2011) A. N. Morozovska et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Magnetization Reversal by Electric-Field Decoupling of Magnetic and Ferroelectric Domain Walls in Multiferroic-Based Heterostructures

(2011) V. Skumryev et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Quantitative measurement of in-plane cantilever torsion for calibrating lateral piezoresponse force microscopy

(2011) Hyunwoo Choi et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Direct Observation of Continuous Electric Dipole Rotation in Flux-Closure Domains in Ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3

(2011) C.-L. Jia et al.   SCIENCE

Giant piezoresponse and promising application of environmental friendly small-ion-doped ZnO

(2011) Feng Pan et al.   Science China-Technological Sciences

Strong piezoelectricity in individual GaN nanowires

(2011) Majid Minary-Jolandan et al.   MRS Communications

Strong Piezoelectricity in Bioinspired Peptide Nanotubes

(2010) Andrei Kholkin et al.   ACS Nano

Electric field controlled manipulation of the magnetization in Ni/BaTiO3 hybrid structures

(2010) S. Geprägs et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Lateral signals in piezoresponse force microscopy at domain boundaries of ferroelectric crystals

(2010) Florian Johann et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Nanoscale domain growth dynamics of ferroelectric poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) thin films

(2010) Yunseok Kim et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Local measurements of Preisach density in polycrystalline ferroelectric capacitors using piezoresponse force spectroscopy

(2010) O. Ovchinnikov et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Effects of cantilever buckling on vector piezoresponse force microscopy imaging of ferroelectric domains in BiFeO3 nanostructures

(2010) Ramesh Nath et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Three-dimensional ferroelectric domain imaging of epitaxial BiFeO3 thin films using angle-resolved piezoresponse force microscopy

(2010) Moonkyu Park et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Two-Dimensional Nanoscale Structural and Functional Imaging in Individual Collagen Type I Fibrils

(2010) Catalin Harnagea et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Correlation of electron backscatter diffraction and piezoresponse force microscopy for the nanoscale characterization of ferroelectric domains in polycrystalline lead zirconate titanate

(2010) T. L. Burnett et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Lateral piezoelectric response across ferroelectric domain walls in thin films

(2010) J. Guyonnet et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Local probing of ionic diffusion by electrochemical strain microscopy: Spatial resolution and signal formation mechanisms

(2010) A. N. Morozovska et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Local Piezoelectricity and Polarity Distribution of Preferred c-Axis-Oriented ZnO Film Investigated by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy

(2010) Cui Ping Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS

Inhomogeneous domain nucleation and growth in disordered ferroelectric capacitors observed by modified piezoresponse force microscopy

(2010) D J Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Highly piezoelectric AlN thin films grown on amorphous, insulating substrates

(2010) Alvaro Artieda et al.   JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY A

Non-Kolmogorov−Avrami−Ishibashi Switching Dynamics in Nanoscale Ferroelectric Capacitors

(2010) Yunseok Kim et al.   NANO LETTERS

Real Space Mapping of Li-Ion Transport in Amorphous Si Anodes with Nanometer Resolution

(2010) Nina Balke et al.   NANO LETTERS

Local piezoelectric properties of ZnO thin films prepared by RF-plasma-assisted pulsed-laser deposition method

(2010) I K Bdikin et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Resolution theory, and static and frequency-dependent cross-talk in piezoresponse force microscopy

(2010) S Jesse et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Above-room-temperature ferroelectricity in a single-component molecular crystal

(2010) Sachio Horiuchi et al.   NATURE

Above-bandgap voltages from ferroelectric photovoltaic devices

(2010) S. Y. Yang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Nanoscale mapping of ion diffusion in a lithium-ion battery cathode

(2010) N. Balke et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

ac dynamics of ferroelectric domains from an investigation of the frequency dependence of hysteresis loops

(2010) S. M. Yang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Collective dynamics underpins Rayleigh behavior in disordered polycrystalline ferroelectrics

(2010) P. Bintachitt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Local polarization dynamics in ferroelectric materials

(2010) Sergei V Kalinin et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Compositional disorder, polar nanoregions and dipole dynamics in Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-based relaxor ferroelectrics

(2010) Alexei A. Bokov et al.   ZEITSCHRIFT FUR KRISTALLOGRAPHIE

Unraveling Deterministic Mesoscopic Polarization Switching Mechanisms: Spatially Resolved Studies of a Tilt Grain Boundary in Bismuth Ferrite

(2009) Brian J. Rodriguez et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Physics and Applications of Bismuth Ferrite

(2009) Gustau Catalan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Shear effects in lateral piezoresponse force microscopy at 180° ferroelectric domain walls

(2009) J. Guyonnet et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Polarization switching kinetics of ferroelectric nanomesas of vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymer

(2009) R. V. Gaynutdinov et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Switching spectroscopy piezoresponse force microscopy of polycrystalline capacitor structures

(2009) Patamas Bintachitt et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Origin of surface potential change during ferroelectric switching in epitaxial PbTiO3 thin films studied by scanning force microscopy

(2009) Yunseok Kim et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Electromechanical Imaging and Spectroscopy of Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials: State of the Art and Prospects for the Future

(2009) Nina Balke et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY

Fabrication of one-dimensional and two-dimensional periodically polarity inverted ZnO structures using the patterned CrN buffer layers

(2009) J. S. Park et al.   JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY B

Domains in Ferroelectric Nanodots

(2009) A. Schilling et al.   NANO LETTERS

Vortex Polarization States in Nanoscale Ferroelectric Arrays

(2009) B. J. Rodriguez et al.   NANO LETTERS

The fabrication of vanadium-doped ZnO piezoelectric nanofiber by electrospinning

(2009) Y Q Chen et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Nanoscale characterization of isolated individual type I collagen fibrils: polarization and piezoelectricity

(2009) Majid Minary-Jolandan et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Conduction at domain walls in oxide multiferroics

(2009) J. Seidel et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Deterministic control of ferroelastic switching in multiferroic materials

(2009) N. Balke et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Thermodynamics of nanodomain formation and breakdown in scanning probe microscopy: Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire approach

(2009) Anna N. Morozovska et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Mixed Bloch-Néel-Ising character of180°ferroelectric domain walls

(2009) Donghwa Lee et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

High speed piezoresponse force microscopy:

(2008) Ramesh Nath et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Local probing of relaxation time distributions in ferroelectric polymer nanomesas: Time-resolved piezoresponse force spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging

(2008) Brian J. Rodriguez et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Imaging mechanism of piezoresponse force microscopy in capacitor structures

(2008) Sergei V. Kalinin et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Giant piezoelectric d[sub 33] coefficient in ferroelectric vanadium doped ZnO films

(2008) Y. C. Yang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Cr-substitution-induced ferroelectric and improved piezoelectric properties of Zn1−xCrxO films

(2008) Y. C. Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Correlated Piezoelectric and Electrical Properties in Individual ZnO Nanorods

(2008) David A. Scrymgeour et al.   NANO LETTERS

Dynamics of ferroelectric nanodomains in BaTiO3epitaxial thin films via piezoresponse force microscopy

(2008) N A Pertsev et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Regular arrays of highly ordered ferroelectric polymer nanostructures for non-volatile low-voltage memories

(2008) Zhijun Hu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Direct imaging of the spatial and energy distribution of nucleation centres in ferroelectric materials

(2008) Stephen Jesse et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Piezoresponse Force Microscopy Studies of Switching Behavior of Ferroelectric Capacitors on a 100-ns Time Scale

(2008) A. Gruverman et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Probing the Role of Single Defects on the Thermodynamics of Electric-Field Induced Phase Transitions

(2008) S. V. Kalinin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Fractal Dimension and Size Scaling of Domains in Thin Films of MultiferroicBiFeO3

(2008) G. Catalan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Size effects in nanoscale ferroelectrics

(2006) A. Rüdiger et al.   JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS