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Progress in the Imaging of Nanoscale Ferroelectric Domain via Scanning Force Microscope

ZENG Hua-Rong; FANG Jian-Wen; HUI Sen-Xing; LI Guo-Rong; YIN Qing-Rui   

  1. State Key Lab of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure; Shanghai Institute of Ceramics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai 200050; China
  • Received:2001-10-09 Revised:2001-11-15 Published:2002-11-20 Online:2002-11-20

Abstract: Scanning force microscope (SFM) is paid great attention as a super-resolutional near-field scanning probe microscope in all circles. SFM is becoming a powerful
technique with great potential for imaging and control of nanoscale domain structures in ferroelectric materials, and it is a promising technique well
suited for nanoscale investigation of local properties including ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, dielectricity in ferroelectics. This review is involved with the
latest progress in the imaging principle of nanoscale ferroelectric domain via SFM.

Key words: nanoscale, ferroelectric domain, scanning force microscope

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