@article{33625,
  keywords = {Thin films, Film growth, Polarization, Bismuth compounds, Single crystals, Ferroelectric switching, Electric field effects, Magnetic domains, Microscopic examination, Piezoelectric force microscopy (PEM), Epitaxial electrodes, Magnetoelectric domain imaging},
  author = {P Shafer and F Zavaliche and Y.-H Chu and P.-L Yang and M.P Cruz and Ramamoorthy Ramesh},
  title = {Planar electrode piezoelectric force microscopy to study electric polarization switching in BiFe O3},
  abstract = {Piezoelectric force microscopy has been enhanced by coplanar epitaxial electrodes to detect and manipulate the striped ferroelectric domain structure of a multiferroic BiFe O3 thin film grown on single-crystalline DySc O3. Time-resolved imaging revealed ferroelastic (71° and 109°) switching of domains in a needlelike region that grew from one electrode toward the other in a uniform electric field, and demonstrated reversible rotation of the 71° domain stripe orientation in a nonuniform field. Purely ferroelectric (180°) switching was suppressed by the geometry of the electrodes. The extendibility of this apparatus opens the door toward magnetoelectric domain imaging. © 2007 American Institute of Physics.},
  year = {2007},
  journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
  volume = {90},
  number = {20},
  publisher = {American Institute of Physics Inc.},
  issn = {00036951},
  doi = {10.1063/1.2741046},
  note = {cited By 27},
  language = {eng},
}