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

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

Biaxial strain is known to induce ferroelectricity in thin films of nominally nonferroelectric
materials such as SrTiO 3. By a direct comparison of the strained and strain-free SrTiO 3 …

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 …

Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is a powerful method widely used for nanoscale
studies of the electromechanical coupling effect in various materials systems. Here, we …

Next-generation electromechanical conversion devices have a significant demand for high-
performance lead-free piezoelectric materials to meet environmentally friendly requirements …

Piezoelectric properties of rat tail tendons, sectioned at angles of 0, 59, and 90° relative to
the plane orthogonal to the major axis, were measured using piezoresponse force …

Temperature-stable dielectric properties have been developed in the 0.86 K 0.5 Na 0.5 NbO
3-0.14 SrZrO 3 solid solution system. High dielectric permittivity (ε′= 2310) with low loss …

Tunable devices constructed by ferroelectric thin films are often desired to possess a low
dielectric loss while maintainging a high dielectric tunability over a broad operating …

The 0.975 [0.72 Pb (Mg1/3Nb2/3) O3-0.28 PbTiO3]-0.025 Eu2O3 ceramics were prepared
by a two-step sintering process including oxygen sintering and hot-pressing. An ultrahigh …