Philippi, B.; Kirchlechner, C.; Micha, J.-S.; Dehm, G.: Size and orientation dependent mechanical behavior of body-centered tetragonal Sn at 0.6 of the melting temperature. Acta Materialia 115, pp. 76 - 82 (2016)
Schüler, K.; Philippi, B.; Weinmann, M.; Marx, V. M.; Vehoff, H.: Effects of processing on texture, internal stresses and mechanical properties during the pulsed electrodeposition of nanocrystalline and ultrafine-grained nickel. Acta Materialia 61 (11), pp. 3945 - 3955 (2013)
Philippi, B.; Kirchlechner, C.; Schießl, A.; Schingale, A.; Dehm, G.: Improving lead-free solders by resolving mechanical properties at the microstructure length scale. Thin Film & Small Scale Mechanical Behavior 2014, Gordon Research Conference, Waltham, MA, USA (2014)
Philippi, B.; Schießl, A.; Schingale, A.; Dehm, G.: Micromechanical investigation of solder joints in automotive microelectronics. GDRi CNRS MECANO General Meeting on the Mechanics of Nano-Objects, MPIE, Düsseldorf, Germany (2013)
Philippi, B.; Schießl, A.; Schingale, A.; Dehm, G.: Micromechanical investigation of solder joints for automotive microelectronics. Nano- and Micromechanical Testing in Materials Research and Development IV, Olhão Algarve, Portugal (2013)
Philippi, B.: Micromechanical characterization of lead-free solder and its individual microstructure elements. Dissertation, Fakultät für Maschnenbau, RUB, Bochum, Germany (2016)
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.
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…
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…
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