Abstract
The piezoresponse technique is based on the detection of local vibrations of a cantilever induced by a probing AC signal applied between the conductive tip of a scanning force microscope (SFM) and the bottom electrode of a ferroelectric sample. The cantilever vibrations are converted into an electrical signal by the position sensitive detector of the SFM and extracted from the global deflection signal using a standard lock-in technique. This electrical signal representing the cantilever vibrations is further referred to as the piezoresponse signal (PRS), for reasons that will be explained later.
Keywords
- Spontaneous Polarization
- Bottom Electrode
- Piezoelectric Coefficient
- Ferroelectric Domain
- Scanning Force Microscope
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Harnagea, C., Pignolet, A. (2004). Challenges in the Analysis of the Local Piezoelectric Response. In: Alexe, M., Gruverman, A. (eds) Nanoscale Characterisation of Ferroelectric Materials. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08901-9_2
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