Ahmad, S.; Brink, T.; Liebscher, C.; Dehm, G.: Influence of variation in grain boundary parameters on the evolution of atomic structure and properties of [111] tilt boundaries in aluminum. Acta Materialia 268, 119732 (2024)
Brink, T.; Langenohl, L.; Ahmad, S.; Liebscher, C.; Dehm, G.: Atomistic Modeling of the Thermodynamics of Grain Boundaries in fcc Metals. 19th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids, Crete, Greece (2023)
Ahmad, S.; Liebscher, C.; Dehm, G.: To decipher the novel atomic structure of [111] tilt grain boundaries in Al. Material Science and Engineering Congress - MSE 2020, virtual, Darmstadt, Germany (2020)
Saood, S.; Liebscher, C.; Dehm, G.: Observing the atomic structure of high angle [111] tilt grain boundaries in Al. Materials Science and Engineering Congress MSE 2020, virtual (2020)
Saood, S.; Brink, T.; Liebscher, C.; Dehm, G.: Atomic structure of [111] tilt boundaries of Al in relation to their crystallographic parameters. International Microscopy Conference 2023 (IMC-20), Busan, South Korea (2023)
Ahmad, S.; Liebscher, C.; Dehm, G.: Exploration of atomic structures in Σ3 [111] Al tilt grain boundaries. Sixth Conference on Frontiers of Aberration Corrected Electron Microscopy PICO 2021, virtual, Kasteel Vaalsbroek, The Netherlands (2021)
Ahmad, S.; Liebscher, C.; Dehm, G.: Strain-Induced phase transition in Σ3 [111] (211) tilt grain boundaries in Al. Microscopy conference Joint Meeting of Dreiländertagungn & Multinational Congress on Microscopy MC 2021, virtual, Vienna, Austria (2021)
Ahmad, S.; Meiners, T.; Frolov, T.; Liebscher, C.; Dehm, G.: Grain boundary structure and phase transitions in Cu and Al [111] tilt grain boundaries. International Workshop on Advanced and In-situ Microscopies of Functional Nanomaterials and Devices, IAMNano, Düsseldorf, Germany (2019)
Ahmad, S.: Fundamental investigation of the atomic structures of [111] tilt grain boundaries, their defects and segregation behaviour in pure and alloyed Al. Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2023)
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