This review paper summarizes recent advances in the quickly develo** field of nanoscale
ferroelectrics, analyses its current status and considers potential future developments. The …

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 …

The application of ferroelectric materials for nonvolatile memory and ferroelectric data
storage necessitates quantitative studies of local switching characteristics and their …

Functionality of biological and inorganic systems ranging from nonvolatile computer
memories and microelectromechanical systems to electromotor proteins and cellular …

This chapter describes the principles, theoretical background, recent developments, and
applications of a local probe-based technique for nondestructive high-resolution ferroelectric …

The main theoretical models for evaluation of the dielectric constant of ceramic/polymer
composites are summarized and applied to PZT/poly (vinylidene fluoride) and BaTiO 3/poly …

Direct current electrical poling of textured hydroxyapatite (HA p) ceramics is reported here to
exhibit weak ferroelectricity and pyroelectricity, but a remarkably higher (six orders of …

In this work, poly (vinilidene fluoride)/Pb (Zr 0.53 Ti 0.47) O 3 ([PVDF] 1− x/[PZT] x)
composites of volumetric fractions x and (0–3) type connectivity were prepared in the form of …

Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Electrochemical Strain Microscopy (ESM) are two
related techniques that have had considerable success in nano-scale probing of functional …