Since its inception more than 25 years ago, Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM) has
become one of the mainstream techniques in the field of nanoferroic materials. This review …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) detects the local piezoelectric deformation of a
sample caused by an applied electric field from the tip of a scanning force microscope. PFM …

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

In this paper, we review recent advances in piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) with
respect to nanoscale ferroelectric research, summarize the basic principles of PFM, illustrate …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has emerged as a powerful and versatile tool for
probing nanoscale phenomena in ferroelectric materials on the nanometer and micrometer …

A novel approach for nanoscale imaging and characterization of the orientation dependence
of electromechanical properties—vector piezoresponse force microscopy (Vector PFM)—is …

Ferroelectric materials have emerged in recent years as an alternative to magnetic and
dielectric materials for nonvolatile data-storage applications,,,,. Lithography is widely used to …

Regularly twinned domain structures are observed by scanning piezoforce microscopy on
single crystalline grains of Bi Fe O 3 ceramics being grown by a special low temperature …

The application of ferroelectric materials for nonvolatile memory and ferroelectric data
storage necessitates quantitative studies of local switching characteristics and their …

Two-dimensional arrays of ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) nanodots were
fabricated using pulsed laser deposition through ultrathin anodic aluminum oxide …