Lateral signals in piezoresponse force microscopy at domain boundaries of ferroelectric crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Johann, Florian ^a,b   Jungk, Tobias ^a   Lilienblum, Martin ^a   Hoffmann, Ákos ^a   Soergel, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN BOUNDARY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FERROELECTRIC CRYSTAL; PIEZORESPONSE FORCE MICROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODELING;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 77956608930     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3486226     Document Type: Article

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