Stein, F.; Prymak, O.; Dovbenko, O. I.; He, C.; Palm, M.; Schuster, J. C.: Investigation of Phase Diagrams of Laves Phase Containing Binary and Ternary Nb–TM(–Al) Systems with TM=Cr,Fe,Co. 2nd Sino-German Symposium on Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics and Their Applications to Solidification, Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany (2009)
Vogel, S. C.; Eumann, M.; Palm, M.; Stein, F.: Investigation of the crystallographic structure of the ε phase in the Fe–Al system by high-temperature neutron diffraction. TMS 2009 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA (2009)
Stein, F.: The Binary Fe–Al System. 5th Discussion Meeting on the Development of Innovative Iron Aluminium Alloys (FEAL 2009), Prague, Czech Republic (2009)
Kumar, K. S.; Stein, F.; Palm, M.: An in-situ electron microscopy study of microstructural evolution in a Co–Co2Nb binary alloy. MRS Fall Meeting 2008, Boston, MA, USA (2008)
Vogel, S. C.; Eumann, M.; Palm, M.; Stein, F.: Investigation of the crystallographic structure of the ε phase in the Fe–Al system by high-temperature neutron diffraction. 20th Annual Rio Grande Symposium on Advanced Materials 2008, Albuquerque, NM, USA (2008)
Kumar, K. S.; Stein, F.; Palm, M.: Preliminary in-situ TEM observations of phase transformations in a Co–15 at.% Nb alloy. Workshop "The Nature of Laves Phases XI", MPIE Düsseldorf, Germany (2008)
Prymak, O.; Stein, F.: Composition dependence of site occupancy and c/a ratio in hexagonal C14 Laves phase of the Nb–Cr–Al system. TOFA Thermodynamics of Alloys 2008, Krakow, Poland (2008)
Stein, F.; Ishikawa, S.; Takeyama, M.; Kumar, K. S.; Palm, M.: Phase equilibria in the Cr–Ti system studied by diffusion couples and equilibrated two-phase alloys. Workshop "The Nature of Laves Phases XI", MPI für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf, Germany (2008)
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