Dehm, G.; Jaya, B. N.; Raghavan, R.; Kirchlechner, C.: Probing deformation and fracture of materials with high spatial resolution. Euromat 2015 - Symposium on In-situ Micro- and Nano-mechanical, Characterization and Size Effects
, Warsaw, Poland (2015)
Malyar, N.; Kirchlechner, C.; Dehm, G.: Dislocation grain boundary interaction in bi-crystalline micro pillars studied by in situ SEM and in situ µLaue diffraction. ICM 12 - 12th International Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Karlsruhe, Germany (2015)
Kirchlechner, C.; Malyar, N.; Imrich, P. J.; Dehm, G.: Plastische Verformung an Korngrenzen: Neue Einblicke durch miniaturisierte Zug- und Druckversuche. 11. Tagung Gefüge und Bruch (2015), Leoben, Austria (2015)
Malyar, N.; Dehm, G.; Kirchlechner, C.: Insights into dislocation slip transfer by µLaue diffraction. Arbeitskreis-Treffen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM) e.V. „Rasterkraftmikroskopie und nanomechanische Methoden“, Darmstadt, Germany (2015)
Marx, V. M.; Kirchlechner, C.; Cordill, M. J.; Dehm, G.: The mechanical behavior of thin cobalt films on polyimide. Arbeitskreistreffen Rasterkraftmikroskopie und nanomechanische Methoden, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germny (2015)
Jaya, B. N.; Kirchlechner, C.; Dehm, G.: Probing deformation and fracture of materials with high spatial resolution. EDSA 2015 – International Workshop on Stress Assisted Environmental Damage in Structural Materials, Chennai, India (2015)
Jaya, B. N.; Kirchlechner, C.; Dehm, G.: Are micro-fracture tests reliable? 2015 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit - Symposium T: Strength and Failure at the Micro and Nano-scale-From fundamentals to Applications
, Boston, MA, USA (2015)
Kirchlechner, C.: “What can we learn from X-ray µLaue diffraction and where do we need to be careful?”. Seminar Talk at Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany (2014)
Kirchlechner, C.: Local diffraction techniques to probe residual strains/stresses in materials. Theorie and Practice of Modern X-Ray Diffraction, Summer School, Ellwangen, Germany (2014)
Marx, V. M.; Cordill, M. J.; Kirchlechner, C.; Dehm, G.: In-situ stress measurements in thin films using synchrotron diffraction. Summer School: Theory and Practice of Modern Powder Diffraction, Tagungshaus Schönenberg, Ellwangen, Ellwangen, Germany (2014)
Kirchlechner, C.: New insights into the plasticity of micron sized objects by in situ µLaue diffraction. Lecture at Universität Münster, Münster, Germany (2014)
Jaya, B. N.; Kirchlechner, C.; Dehm, G.: Design and development of fracture property measurement techniques at the small scale. ICAMS (RUB), Bochum, Germany (2014)
Marx, V. M.; Kirchlechner, C.; Berger, J.; Cordill, M. J.; Dehm, G.: In-situ stress measurements in Cu films using synchrotron radiation. "Mechanical Issues for Flexible Electronics" Flex Workshop, Erich Schmid Institut, Leoben, Leoben, Austria (2014)
In this project we study - together with the department of Prof. Neugebauer and Dr. Sandlöbes at RWTH Aachen - the underlying mechanisms that are responsible for the improved room-temperature ductility in Mg–Y alloys compared to pure Mg.
The wide tunability of the fundamental electronic bandgap by size control is a key attribute of semiconductor nanocrystals, enabling applications spanning from biomedical imaging to optoelectronic devices. At finite temperature, exciton-phonon interactions are shown to exhibit a strong impact on this fundamental property.
Oxides find broad applications as catalysts or in electronic components, however are generally brittle materials where dislocations are difficult to activate in the covalent rigid lattice. Here, the link between plasticity and fracture is critical for wide-scale application of functional oxide materials.
Efficient harvesting of sunlight and (photo-)electrochemical conversion into solar fuels is an emerging energy technology with enormous promise. Such emerging technologies depend critically on materials systems, in which the integration of dissimilar components and the internal interfaces that arise between them determine the functionality.
Enabling a ‘hydrogen economy’ requires developing fuel cells satisfying economic constraints, reasonable operating costs and long-term stability. The fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts chemical energy into electricity by recombining water from H2 and O2, allowing to generate environmentally-friendly power for e.g. cars or houses…
The project Hydrogen Embrittlement Protection Coating (HEPCO) addresses the critical aspects of hydrogen permeation and embrittlement by developing novel strategies for coating and characterizing hydrogen permeation barrier layers for valves and pumps used for hydrogen storage and transport applications.
We have studied a nanocrystalline AlCrCuFeNiZn high-entropy alloy synthesized by ball milling followed by hot compaction at 600°C for 15 min at 650 MPa. X-ray diffraction reveals that the mechanically alloyed powder consists of a solid-solution body-centered cubic (bcc) matrix containing 12 vol.% face-centered cubic (fcc) phase. After hot compaction, it consists of 60 vol.% bcc and 40 vol.% fcc. Composition analysis by atom probe tomography shows that the material is not a homogeneous fcc–bcc solid solution