Local polarization switching in stressed ferroelectric polymers
Local polarization switching in stressed ferroelectric polymers is a scholarly work by Ronggang Cai, Zhijun Hu, Alain M. Jonas, and Bernard Nysten, published in 2017 in ''Applied Physics Letters''. The main subjects of the publication include composite material, polymer, materials science, Piezoresponse force microscopy, nanogenerator, optoelectronics, ferroelectricity, nanotechnology, bent molecular geometry, nucleation, piezoelectricity, multiferroics, coercivity, condensed matter physics, Ferroelectric polymers, and electrochemical polarization. The authors ascribe these observations to a decrease of the domain wall pinning energy, resulting from the mechanical energy stored in the sample due to bending in the presence of the compression gradient generated below the PFM tip..