National University of Science and Technology MISiS

A. S. Bykov

D. A. Kiselev

V. V. Antipov

M. D. Malinkovich

Yu. N. Parkhomenko

The angular dependence of the lateral component piesoresponse in Y−cut lithium niobate single crystals with a regular domain structure was investigated in piezoresponse force microscopy mode. It is shown that visualization of the domain structure is determined by the orientation of the X direction of the crystal relative to the scan direction: the greatest contrast between domains with opposite orientation of the polarization vectors takes place at locations along an X−direction line and the direction of scanning.

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