%0 Conference Paper %K Thin films %K Nanostructured materials %K Atomic force microscopy %K Polarization %K Ferroelectric materials %K Magnetic domains %K Grain boundaries %K Scanning force microscopy (SFM) %A A Gruverman %A S.A Prakash %A S Aggarwal %A Ramamoorthy Ramesh %A O Auciello %A H Tokumoto %B Proceedings of the Materials Research Society Symposium - %D 1998 %G eng %I MRS, Warrendale, PA, United States %P 53-58 %S Materials Research Society Symposium - %T Nanoscale investigation of polarization retention loss in ferroelectric thin films via scanning force microscopy %V 493