Ismer, L.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: First principles study of Hydrogen in Mn-rich austenitic steels. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Berlin, Germany (2008)
Körmann, F.; Dick, A.; Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Importance of magnetism for the thermal expansion of transition metals: An ab initio study. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Berlin, Germany (2008)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: A first principle determination of phase transitions in magnetic shape memory alloys. Multiscale approach to alloys: Advances and challenges, Stockholm, Sweden (2007)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: Determination of symmetry reduced structures by a soft-phonon analysis in magnetic shape memory alloys. Theory meets industry. The impact of density-functional calculation on materials science, Vienna, Austria (2007)
Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Accuracy and error bars of DFT calculated thermodynamic properties for elementary metals. 13th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods, Trieste, Italy (2007)
Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Uijttewaal, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Determination of symmetry-reduced structures by a soft-phonon analysis in magnetic shape memory alloys. 13th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods, Trieste, Italy (2007)
Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.; Neumann, B.; Neumann, K.-U.; Ziebeck, K. R. A.: Temperature dependent properties of the Heusler alloy Ni2+xMn1-xGa. International Workshop on Ab initio Description of Iron and Steel (ADIS2006), Status and future challenges, Ringberg Castle, Germany (2006)
Hickel, T.; Nolting, W.: A self-consistent projection-operator approach to the Kondo-lattice model. The International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Vienna, Austria (2005)
Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Neumann, K.; Neumann, K.-U.; Ziebeck, K. R. A.; Neugebauer, J.: Temperature dependent properties of Ni-rich Ni2MnGa. Materials Research Society fall meeting, Boston, MA, USA (2005)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
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.
The fracture toughness of AuXSnY intermetallic compounds is measured as it is crucial for the reliability of electronic chips in industrial applications.
Within this project we investigate chemical fluctuations at the nanometre scale in polycrystalline Cu(In,Ga)Se2 and CuInS2 thin-flims used as absorber material in solar cells.
This project aims to investigate the dynamic hardness of B2-iron aluminides at high strain rates using an in situ nanomechanical tester capable of indentation up to constant strain rates of up to 100000 s−1 and study the microstructure evolution across strain rate range.