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 …

Recent progress in machine learning methods and the emerging availability of
programmable interfaces for scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) have propelled …

Ferroelectric materials have remained one of the major focal points of condensed matter
physics and materials science for over 50 years. In the last 20 years, the development of …

A dual-excitation method for resonant-frequency tracking in scanning probe microscopy
based on amplitude detection is developed. This method allows the cantilever to be …

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

For over 70 years, ferroelectric materials have been one of the central research topics for
condensed matter physics and material science, an interest driven both by fundamental …

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

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 …

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