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This chapter describes the principles, theoretical background, recent developments, and applications of a local probe-based technique for nondestructive high-resolution ferroelectric domain imaging and manipulation—piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM). This technique has proven to be a powerful tool for the characterization of ferroelectric thin films, ceramics, and single crystals. Recent advances in application of PFM for studying a mechanism of polarization reversal at the nanoscale, domain dynamics, degradation effects, and size-dependent phenomena in ferroelectrics are reviewed in detail. Examples of using PFM for the characterization of various polar materials such as ferroelectric films, piezoelectric semiconductors, and ferroelectric relaxors are given.
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Kholkin, A.L., Kalinin, S.V., Roelofs, A., Gruverman, A. (2007). Review of Ferroelectric Domain Imaging by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy. In: Kalinin, S., Gruverman, A. (eds) Scanning Probe Microscopy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-28668-6_7
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