Elastin is a major constituent of lung that makes up approximately 30% of lung's dry weight,
and the piezoelectricity of elastin is expected to be exhibited in lung tissues. Because …

Domain walls and topological defects in ferroelectric materials have emerged as a powerful
tool for functional electronic devices including memory and logic. Similarly, wall interactions …

The contrast formation mechanism in nanoscale Infrared (IR) Spectroscopy is analyzed. The
temperature distribution and elastic displacement across the illuminated T-shape boundary …

Scanning probe microscopy is often extended beyond simple topographic imaging to study
electrical forces and sample properties, with the most widely used experiment being …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is routinely used to probe the nanoscale
electromechanical response of ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials. However, many …

Perceiving nanoscale ferroelectric phenomena from real space is of great importance for
elucidating underlying ferroelectric physics. During the past decades, nanoscale …

Hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite (HOIP) solar cells have undergone unprecedentedly
rapid improvement in power conversion efficiencies during the last decade, but controversy …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is an indispensable tool for investigating local
piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties by detecting the electromechanical strain response …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has been widely used for the nanoscale analysis of
piezoelectric properties and ferroelectric domains. Although PFM is useful because of its …

Different from the signals of amplitude and phase lag in piezoresponse force microscopy
(PFM) and piezoresponse force spectroscopy (PFS), the signals of the contact resonance …