Contact AFM

AFM topography of the glycine microcrystals

Contact AFM topography image of the glycine microcrystal. Growth steps and growth defects shows.

Seyedhosseini, I. Bdikin, M. Ivanov, D. Vasileva, A. Kudryavtsev, B. J. Rodriguez, A. L. Kholkin, Tip-induced domain structures and polarization switching in ferroelectric amino acid glycine, Journal of Applied Physics 118, 072008 (2015)

AFM topography of the PZT single crystals

Topographic image of the (100)-oriented PZT single crystal

 

 

 

 

Surface corrugations along the AB line

 

 

 

 

Schematic of the domain structure of the PZT single crystal

 

 

 

I.K. Bdikin, J. A. Perez, I. Coondoo, A. M. R. Senos, P. Q. Mantas, and A. L. Kholkin, Ferroelectric domain structure of PbZr0.35Ti0.65O3 single crystals by piezoresponse force microscopy,  JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 110, 052003 (2011)