Ferroelectrics and multiferroics have recently emerged as perspective materials for
information technology and data storage applications. The combination of extremely narrow …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has been used extensively for exploring nanoscale
ferro/piezoelectric phenomena over the past two decades. The imaging mechanism of PFM …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is used to measure the effective piezoelectric
coefficient (d 33) of an individual (0001) surface dominated zinc oxide nanobelt lying on a …

The piezoelectric effect in poly (vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, was discovered over four
decades ago and since then, significant work has been carried out aiming at the production …

The ability to probe a material's electromechanical functionality on the nanoscale is critical to
applications from energy storage and computing to biology and medicine. Voltage …

Nanostructured surfaces can be broadly defined as substrates in which the typical features
have dimensions in the range 1–100 nm (although the upper limit of 100 nm may be relaxed …

Wafer-scale fabrication of ferroelectric oxide nanoshell tubes as well as ordered nanotube
arrays have been accomplished using a simple and convenient fabrication method that …

We report a large photovoltaic (PV) effect in multiferroic Bi 2 FeCrO 6 (BFCO) films under
monochromatic illumination at 635 nm with an intensity of 1.5 mW cm− 2⁠. These …

The development of wearable technology increasingly requires bendable sensing devices
operating across multiple domains for opto‐electro‐mechanical and biochemical …

Functionality of biological and inorganic systems ranging from nonvolatile computer
memories and microelectromechanical systems to electromotor proteins and cellular …