%0 Journal Article %K Nucleation %K Hysteresis %K Materials properties %K Polarization %K Ferroelectric materials %K Polarization switching %K Ferroelectricity %K Bismuth ferrite %K Ferroelectric domains %K Switching %K Bismuth %K Ferrite %K Superconducting materials %K Quantitative analysis %K Optical switches %K Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) %K Phase interfaces %K Phase-field modeling %K Spatially resolved %K Interface charge %K Wall energy %K Domain nucleation %K Single defect %K Semiconducting bismuth compounds %K Hysteresis loops %K Bicrystal grain boundary %K Complex mechanisms %K Depolarization fields %K Ferroelastic %K Mesoscopic %K Microstructure engineering %K Tilt grain boundary %K Grain boundaries %K Grain size and shape %A B.J Rodriguez %A S Choudhury %A Y.H Chu %A A Bhattacharyya %A S Jesse %A K Seal %A A.P Baddorf %A Ramamoorthy Ramesh %A L.-Q Chen %A S.V Kalinin %B Advanced Functional Materials %D 2009 %G eng %P 2053-2063 %R 10.1002/adfm.200900100 %T Unraveling deterministic mesoscopic polarization switching mechanisms: spatially resolved studies of a tilt grain boundary in bismuth ferrite %V 19