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Hi All:
I would like to post our recent references that may guide on PFM principles:
A. L. Kholkin et al.,Nanoscale piezoelectric characterization of polycrystalline ferroelectrics, J. Electroceram. 19, 81 (2007).
A. L. Kholkin et al., Review of ferroelectric domain imaging by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy, in Scanning Probe Microscopy: Electrical and Electromechanical Phenomena at the Nanoscale, Eds. S. Kalinin, A. Gruverman, Springer, 2006, V. 1, pp. 173-214.
A. Gruverman, A. L. Kholkin, Nanoscale ferroelectrics: processing, properties and future trends, Rep. Progr. Phys. 69, 2443 (2006).
N. Pertsev et al., Dynamics of ferroelectrics domains in BaTiO3 ferroelectric thin films via piezoresponse force microscopy, Nanotechnology 19, 375703 (2008).
I. K. Bdikin et al.,Domain dynamics in piezoresponse force spectroscopy: quantitative deconvolution and hysteresis loop fine structure Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 182909 (2008).
A. Kholkin

Greetings!

PDF copies of PFM papers (reviews and contributed, recent and not so recent) can be found here:

http://physics.unl.edu/~agruverman/publications.shtml

In addition, follwoing references can be useful:

General short review on bias-induced phase transitions:
S.V. Kalinin, B.J. Rodriguez, S. Jesse, P. Maksymovych, K. Seal, M. Nikiforov, A.P. Baddorf, A.L. Kholkin, and R. Proksch, Local Bias-Induced Phase Transitions, Materials Today 11, 16 (2008).

General aspects of electromechnics in nanoscale systems:
Sergei V. Kalinin, B.J. Rodriguez, S. Jesse, B. Mirman, E. Karapetian, E.A. Eliseev, and A.N. Morozovska, Nanoscale Electromechanics of Ferroelectric and biological Systems, Annu. Rev. Mat. Sci. 37, 189 (2007).

Some instrumental aspects of PFM:
Sergei V. Kalinin, A. Rar, and S. Jesse, A Decade of Piezoresponse Force Microscopy: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics and Ferroelectric Materials 53, 2226 (2006).

Resolution in PFM and contrast at walls:
A.N. Morozovska, S.L. Bravina, E.A. Eliseev, and Sergei V. Kalinin, Resolution-function theory in piezoresponse force microscopy: Wall imaging, spectroscopy, and lateral resolution, Phys. Rev. B 75, 174109 (2007)

PFM contrast in anisotropic materials (for standard and dipolar tips):
E.A. Eliseev, Sergei V. Kalinin, S. Jesse, S.L. Bravina, and A.N. Morozovska, Electromechanical Detection in Scanning Probe Microscopy: Tip Models and Materials Contrast, J. Appl. Phys. 102, 014109 (2007).

another of Andrei's papers

V. V. Shvartsman, A. L. Kholkin, Investigation of switching behavior in PbZr0.45Ti0.55O3 thin films by means of Scanning Probe Microscopy, Ferroelectrics 286, 291 (2003).