%0 Journal Article
%K Atomic force microscopy
%K Epitaxial growth
%K Piezoelectricity
%K Ferroelectric thin films
%K Electric conductivity
%K Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM)
%K Relaxation processes
%K Epitaxial ferroelectric thin films
%A L Chen
%A J Ouyang
%A C.S Ganpule
%A V Nagarajan
%A Ramamoorthy Ramesh
%A A.L Roytburd
%B Applied Physics Letters
%D 2004
%G eng
%P 254-256
%R 10.1063/1.1633970
%T Formation of 90° elastic domains during local 180° switching in epitaxial ferroelectric thin films
%V 84
%X A cylindrical 180° domain was stabilized by the formation of 90° domains to relax stress that arises due to the opposite signs of the converse piezoelectric effects in the switched 180° domain and the unswitched film surrounding. It was found that the formation of 90° domains can be effective mechanism for the piezostress relaxation in 180° domains and their stabilization.