Sandlöbes, S.; Friák, M.; Dick, A.; Zaefferer, S.; Pei, Z.; Zhu, L.-F.; Sha, G.; Ringer, S.; Neugebauer, J.; Raabe, D.: Combining ab initio calculations and high resolution experiments to improve the understanding of advanced Mg-Y and Mg-RE alloys. 7th Annual Conference of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (2012)
Konijnenberg, P. J.; Zaefferer, S.; Raabe, D.: Advanced analysis of 3D EBSD data obtained by FIB tomography. NVvM 2012 Materials Science Meeting, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2012)
Tasan, C. C.; Zaefferer, S.; Raabe, D.: In-situ investigations of small strain plasticity in dual-phase steel. 23rd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), Beijing, China (2012)
Zaefferer, S.; Chen, J.; Konijnenberg, P.: A study on origin and nature of shear bands in cold rolled Mg-3Y alloy using 3D EBSD. 9th Intern. Conference on Magnesium alloys and their applications, Vancouver, Canada (2012)
Zaefferer, S.: An overview on techniques for the measurements of plastic and elastic strain by EBSD and related techniques. EBSD usermeeting der DGK, Hannover, Germany (2012)
Zaefferer, S.: Advanced applications of SEM-based electron diffraction techniques for the characterization of deformation structures of new steels. E-MRS 2012, Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France (2012)
Zaefferer, S.: Dislocations in metals: Observations from the atomic scale to macroscopic dimensions. ICMS Workshop, “Open problems between micro and macro systems of agents and particles”, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2012)
Ram, F.; Zaefferer, S.: Kikuchi Bandlet Method: A Method to Resolve the Source Point Position of an EBSD Pattern. 20th Annual meeting of the German Crystallographic Society, München, Germany (2012)
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.
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.
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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.
In this project, we work on a generic solution to design advanced high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with enhanced magnetic properties. By overturning the concept of stabilizing solid solutions in HEAs, we propose to render the massive solid solutions metastable and trigger spinodal decomposition. The motivation for starting from the HEA for this approach…