Stein, F.; Palm, M.: Re-determination of transition temperatures in the Fe–Al system by differential thermal analysis. International Journal of Materials Research 98 (7), pp. 580 - 588 (2007)
Stein, F.; Palm, M.; Sauthoff, G.: Mechanical Properties and Oxidation Behaviour of Two-Phase Iron Aluminium Alloys with Zr(Fe,Al)2 Laves Phase or Zr(Fe,Al)12 τ1 Phase. Intermetallics 13 (12), pp. 1275 - 1285 (2005)
Pöter, B.; Stein, F.; Wirth, R.; Spiegel, M.: Early stages of protective layer growth on binary iron aluminides. Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie 219, pp. 1489 - 1503 (2005)
Stein, F.; Palm, M.; Sauthoff, G.: Structure and stability of Laves phases. Part II: Structure type variations in binary and ternary systems. Intermetallics 13 (10), pp. 1056 - 1074 (2005)
Wasilkowska, A.; Bartsch, M.; Stein, F.; Palm, M.; Sauthoff, G.; Messerschmidt, U.: Plastic deformation of Fe–Al polycrystals strengthened with Zr-containing Laves phases: Part II. Mechanical properties. Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 381 (1-2), pp. 1 - 15 (2004)
Stein, F.; Palm, M.; Sauthoff, G.: Structure and stability of Laves phases. Part I - Critical assessment of factors controlling Laves phase stability. Intermetallics 12 (7-9), pp. 713 - 720 (2004)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
Within this project, we will use a green laser beam source based selective melting to fabricate full dense copper architectures. The focus will be on identifying the process parameter-microstructure-mechanical property relationships in 3-dimensional copper lattice architectures, under both quasi-static and dynamic loading conditions.
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.