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

Ferroelectric relaxors continue to be one of the most mysterious solid-state materials. Since
their discovery by Smolenskii and coworkers, there have been many attempts to understand …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is a powerful method widely used for nanoscale
studies of the electromechanical coupling effect in various materials systems. Here, we …

Abstract Na 0.5 Bi 0.5 TiO 3 (NBT)-based ceramics are promising lead-free candidates for
energy-storage applications owing to their individual crystal structure and phase transition …

Relaxor ferroelectrics are a prototypical example of ferroic systems in which interplay
between atomic disorder and order parameters gives rise to emergence of unusual …

In recent years, ferroelectric/piezoelectric polycrystalline bulks and thick films have been
extensively studied for different applications, such as sensors, actuators, transducers and …

Polarization switching in ergodic relaxor and ferroelectric phases in the PbMg 1/3 Nb 2/3 O 3–
PbTiO 3 (PMN-PT) system is studied using piezoresponse force microscopy, single point …

The authors confirmed that applying a coating of Al 2 O 3, TiC, or TiN on a substrate reduced
the hydrogen permeation by a factor of at least one order of magnitude compared with …

The evolution of microstructure (grain size) with the sintering temperature and its effect on
the electrical properties has been investigated for ((Bi 0.5 Na 0.5) 0.94 Ba 0.06) 0.70 Sr 0.30 …

Direct measurements of the motion of domain walls in disordered ferroelectrics provide
important information on their interaction with defects, which is crucial for the functioning of …