Andrei L. Kholkin

TL;DR: A review paper summarizes recent advances in the field of nanoscale ferroelectrics, analyzes its current status and considers potential future developments as mentioned in this paper, and presents a brief survey of the fabrication methods of ferroelectric nanostructures and investigation of the size effects by means of scanning probe microscopy.

TL;DR: In this article, a double-beam interferometer was proposed to suppress the bending effect of the substrate bending motion in piezoelectric thin-film measurements, which was shown to resolve small displacements without using lock-in technique.

TL;DR: Anomalously strong shear piezoelectric activity in self-assembled diphenylalanine peptide nanotubes (PNTs) is shown, indicating electric polarization directed along the tube axis, opening up a wide avenue for developing new generations of "green" piezOElectric materials and piezonanodevices based on bioactive tubular nanostructures potentially compatible with human tissue.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of heterovalent Ca, Sr, Pb, and Ba substitution on the crystal structure, dielectric, local ferroelectric, and magnetic properties of the BiFeO3 multiferroic perovskite was studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize the fundamentals and recent advances in PFM, and describe the nanoscale electromechanical properties of several important ferroelectric ceramic materials widely used in memory and microelectromechanical systems applications.