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 …

Strain and electromechanical coupling are ubiquitous in nature, and exist in many
processes involved in information technology, energy conversion, and biological …

The explosion of mobile data from the internet of things (IoT) is leading to the emergence of
5G technology with dramatic frequency band expansion and efficient band allocations …

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) probes the mechanical deformation of a sample in
response to an electric field applied with the tip of an atomic force microscope. Originally …

With prosperity, decay, and another spring, molecular ferroelectrics have passed a hundred
years since Valasek first discovered ferroelectricity in the molecular compound Rochelle …

Piezocatalysis shows promise to diversify hydrogen production methods and solve problems
in photocatalysis such as high charge recombination and low solar light absorption by waste …

In recent years, ferroelectric/piezoelectric polycrystalline bulks and thick films have been
extensively studied for different applications, such as sensors, actuators, transducers and …

Abstract Piezoresponse Force Microscopy is a powerful but delicate nanoscale technique
that measures the electromechanical response resulting from the application of a highly …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) methods utilizing resonant mechanical vibrations of
cantilevers in contact with a sample surface have shown sensitivities as high as few …