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 …

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 …

Critical Role of Interlayer in Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 Ferroelectric FET Nonvolatile Memory Performance

K Ni, P Sharma, J Zhang, M Jerry… - … on Electron Devices, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We fabricate, characterize, and establish the critical design criteria of Hf 0.5 Zr 0.5 O 2 (HZO)-
based ferroelectric field effect transistor (FeFET) for nonvolatile memory application. We …

A ferroelectric memristor

A Chanthbouala, V Garcia, RO Cherifi… - Nature materials, 2012 - nature.com
Memristors are continuously tunable resistors that emulate biological synapses,.
Conceptualized in the 1970s, they traditionally operate by voltage-induced displacements of …

Quantification of the electromechanical measurements by piezoresponse force microscopy

P Buragohain, H Lu, C Richter, T Schenk… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is widely used for characterization and exploration
of the nanoscale properties of ferroelectrics. However, quantification of the PFM signal is …

Complex oxides for brain‐inspired computing: A review

TJ Park, S Deng, S Manna, ANMN Islam… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The fields of brain‐inspired computing, robotics, and, more broadly, artificial intelligence (AI)
seek to implement knowledge gleaned from the natural world into human‐designed …

Electromechanical imaging and spectroscopy of ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials: state of the art and prospects for the future

N Balke, I Bdikin, SV Kalinin… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has emerged as a powerful and versatile tool for
probing nanoscale phenomena in ferroelectric materials on the nanometer and micrometer …

Non-piezoelectric effects in piezoresponse force microscopy

D Seol, B Kim, Y Kim - Current Applied Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has been used extensively for exploring nanoscale
ferro/piezoelectric phenomena over the past two decades. The imaging mechanism of PFM …

Direct imaging of the spatial and energy distribution of nucleation centres in ferroelectric materials

S Jesse, BJ Rodriguez, S Choudhury, AP Baddorf… - Nature materials, 2008 - nature.com
Macroscopic ferroelectric polarization switching, similar to other first-order phase transitions,
is controlled by nucleation centres. Despite 50 years of extensive theoretical and …

Piezoresponse force microscopy: a window into electromechanical behavior at the nanoscale

DA Bonnell, SV Kalinin, AL Kholkin, A Gruverman - MRS bulletin, 2009 - cambridge.org
Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is a powerful method widely used for nanoscale
studies of the electromechanical coupling effect in various materials systems. Here, we …