The past decade has witnessed dramatic progress related to various aspects of emergent
topological polar textures in oxide nanostructures displaying vortices, skyrmions, merons …

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

Abstract Over 60 years ago, Charles Kittel predicted that quadrant domains should
spontaneously form in small ferromagnetic platelets. He expected that the direction of …

The piezoelectric properties of tetragonal BaTiO 3 crystals with a very high density of 90 twin
domain boundaries are analyzed in the framework of the Ginzburg–Landau–Devonshire …

Switching dynamics of nanoscale ferroelectric capacitors with a radius of 35 nm were
investigated using piezoresponse force microscopy. Polarization switching starts with only …

Vortices inside polar domain walls in ferroelastic materials can form ordered arrays
resembling Bloch-lines in magnets. The Bloch lines are energetically degenerate with …

Raman spectroscopy represents an insightful characterization tool in electronics, which
comprehensively suits the technological needs for locally and quantitatively assessing …

Using piezoresponse force microscopy, we have observed the progressive development of
ferroelectric flux-closure domain structures and Landau–Kittel-type domain patterns, in 300 …

A high speed variation of Scanning Probe Microscopy with continuous image rates on the
order of 1 frame per second is applied to investigate the nucleation and growth of individual …

The search for “exotic” interfaces can now be undertaken as we realize that interfaces and
domain boundaries can contain structural elements which are not a simple juxtaposition of …