Piezoresponse force microscopy and nanoferroic phenomena

A Gruverman, M Alexe, D Meier - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ferroelectric or non-ferroelectric: Why so many materials exhibit “ferroelectricity” on the nanoscale

RK Vasudevan, N Balke, P Maksymovych… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM)

E Soergel - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

[LIBRO][B] Domains in ferroic crystals and thin films

AK Tagantsev, LE Cross, J Fousek - 2010 - Springer
With much excitement and great enthusiasm I introduce this thorough treatise on the major
aspects of domain and domain wall phenomena in ferroics, mostly ferroelectrics, a major …

Ferroelectric domains in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite thin-films

H Röhm, T Leonhard, MJ Hoffmann… - Energy & Environmental …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We explore the ferroic properties of methylammonium lead iodide perovskite solar cells by
piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM). In vertical and horizontal PFM imaging, we find …

Local polarization dynamics in ferroelectric materials

SV Kalinin, AN Morozovska, LQ Chen… - Reports on Progress …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Ferroelectrics and multiferroics have recently emerged as perspective materials for
information technology and data storage applications. The combination of extremely narrow …

Imaging mechanism of piezoresponse force microscopy of ferroelectric surfaces

SV Kalinin, DA Bonnell - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
In order to determine the origin of image contrast in piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM),
analytical descriptions of the complex interactions between a small tip and ferroelectric …

Conducting domain walls in lithium niobate single crystals

M Schröder, A Haußmann, A Thiessen… - Advanced functional …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroic materials play an increasingly important role in novel (nano) electronic devices.
Recently, research on domain walls (DWs) receives a big boost by the discovery of DW …

Piezoresponse force microscopy and recent advances in nanoscale studies of ferroelectrics

A Gruverman, SV Kalinin - Journal of materials science, 2006 - Springer
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 …

Non-piezoelectric effects in piezoresponse force microscopy

D Seol, B Kim, Y Kim - Current Applied Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has been used extensively for exploring nanoscale
ferro/piezoelectric phenomena over the past two decades. The imaging mechanism of PFM …