The current trend in the miniaturization of electronic devices has driven the investigation into
many nanostructured materials. The ferroelectric material barium titanate (BaTiO3) has …

An overview of the state of art in ferroelectric thin films is presented. First, we review
applications: microsystems' applications, applications in high frequency electronics, and …

The critical size limit of voltage-switchable electric dipoles has extensive implications for
energy-efficient electronics, underlying the importance of ferroelectric order stabilized at …

Ultrathin ferroelectric materials could potentially enable low-power logic and nonvolatile
memories,. As ferroelectric materials are made thinner, however, the ferroelectricity is …

Out-of-plane ferroelectricity with a high transition temperature in ultrathin films is important
for the exploration of new domain physics and scaling down of memory devices. However …

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 …

Ferroelectricity in functional materials remains one of the most fascinating areas of modern
science in the past several decades. In the last several years, the rapid development of …

Perovskite ferroelectric BiFeO3 has been extensively researched in many application fields,
but has rarely been investigated for the energy conversion of tiny mechanical motions in …

In ferroelectric materials, spontaneous symmetry breaking leads to a switchable electric
polarization, which offers significant promise for nonvolatile memories. In particular …

Flexible organic materials possessing useful electrical properties, such as ferroelectricity,
are of crucial importance in the engineering of electronic devices. Up until now, however …