Recent progress in two‐dimensional ferroelectric materials

Z Guan, H Hu, X Shen, P **ang… - Advanced Electronic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The investigation of two‐dimensional (2D) ferroelectrics has attracted significant interest in
recent years for applications in functional electronics. Without the limitation of a finite size …

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 …

Visualization of moiré superlattices

LJ McGilly, A Kerelsky, NR Finney… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Moiré superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures have given rise to a number of
emergent electronic phenomena due to the interplay between atomic structure and electron …

Enhanced piezoelectricity of electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride fibers for energy harvesting

PK Szewczyk, A Gradys, SK Kim… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Piezoelectric polymers are promising energy materials for wearable and implantable
applications for replacing bulky batteries in small and flexible electronics. Therefore, many …

[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 …

Differentiating ferroelectric and nonferroelectric electromechanical effects with scanning probe microscopy

N Balke, P Maksymovych, S Jesse, A Herklotz… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
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 …

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 …

Polarization switching and light-enhanced piezoelectricity in lead halide perovskites

M Coll, A Gomez, E Mas-Marza, O Almora… - The journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We investigate the ferroelectric properties of photovoltaic methylammonium lead halide
CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite using piezoelectric force microscopy (PFM) and macroscopic …

Ferroelastic fingerprints in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite

IM Hermes, SA Bretschneider… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) perovskite shows an outstanding performance in
photovoltaic devices. However, certain material properties, especially the possible ferroic …