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 …

Ferroelectrics have a spontaneous electrical polarization that is arranged into domains and
can be reversed by an externally-applied field. This high versatility makes them useful in …

Piezoelectricity allows precise and robust conversion between electricity and mechanical
force, and arises from the broken inversion symmetry in the atomic structure,,. Reducing the …

In the past year it has become possible to fabricate ferroelectric thin-film memories onto
standard silicon integrated circuits that combine very high speed (30-nanosecond …

This review covers important advances in recent years in the physics of thin-film ferroelectric
oxides, the strongest emphasis being on those aspects particular to ferroelectrics in thin-film …

The simultaneous occurrence of gigantic piezoelectricity and Rashba effect in two-
dimensional (2D) materials is unusually scarce. Inversion symmetry occurring in MX3 (M= Ti …

Interest in energy harvesters has grown rapidly over the last decade. The research effort in
large-scale energy harvesting has mainly focused on piezoelectric ceramic based devices …

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

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 …

▪ Abstract Scanning force microscopy (SFM) is becoming a powerful technique with great
potential both for imaging and for control of domain structures in ferroelectric materials at the …