Local probing of relaxation time distributions in ferroelectric polymer nanomesas: Time-resolved piezoresponse force spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Rodriguez, Brian J ^a,c   Jesse, Stephen ^a   Kim, Jihee ^b   Ducharme, Stephen ^b   Kalinin, Sergei V ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS; DYNAMICS; FERROELECTRICITY; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; MECHANICS; PIGMENTS; POLARIZATION; POLYMERS; PULSE TIME MODULATION; RELAXATION PROCESSES; RELAXATION TIME; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPIN POLARIZATION; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); APPLIED (CO); FERROELECTRIC (BARIUM STRONTIUM TITANATE); FERROELECTRIC POLYMERS; FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; INTERNAL STRUCTURES; LENGTH SCALING; LOCAL PROBING; NANO SCALING; NANOMESA; NON UNIFORM; PIEZORESPONSE; PIEZORESPONSE FORCE MICROSCOPY (PFM); POLARIZATION DYNAMICS; POLARIZATION RELAXATION; POLYVINYLIDINE FLUORIDE (PVDF); RELAXATION BEHAVIORS; RELAXORS; SIGNAL GENERATION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; TIME-RESOLVED; TRIFLUORO ETHYLENE;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 45149104032     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2942390     Document Type: Article

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