Borchers, C.; Arlt, J.; Nowak, C.; Gärtner, F.; Hammerschmidt, M.; Kreye, H.; Volkert, C.; Kirchheim, R.: Influence of element distribution on mechanical properties in the bonding zone of explosively welded steels. Scripta Materialia 199, 113860 (2021)
Kresse, T.; Borchers, C.; Kirchheim, R.: Vacancy-carbon complexes in bcc iron: Correlation between carbon content, vacancy concentration and diffusion coefficient. Scripta Materialia 69 (9), pp. 690 - 693 (2013)
Li, Y.; Choi, P.-P.; Goto, S.; Borchers, C.; Raabe, D.; Kirchheim, R.: Atomic scale investigation of redistribution of alloying elements in pearlitic steel wires upon cold-drawing and annealing. Ultramicroscopy 132, pp. 233 - 238 (2013)
Chen, Y. Z.; Herz, A.; Li, Y. J.; Borchers, C.; Choi, P.; Raabe, D.; Kirchheim, R.: Nanocrystalline Fe–C alloys produced by ball milling of iron and graphite. Acta Materialia 61 (9), pp. 3172 - 3185 (2013)
Herbig, M.; Li, Y.; Morsdorf, L.; Goto, S.; Choi, P.-P.; Kirchheim, R.; Raabe, D.: Recent Advances in Understanding the Structures and Properties of Nanomaterials. Gordon Research Conference on Structural Nanomaterials, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (2014)
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.