Kovács, A.; Pradeep, K. G.; Herzer, G.; Raabe, D.; Dunin-Borkowski, R. E.: Magnetic microstructure in a stress-annealed Fe73.5Si15.5B7Nb3Cu1 soft magnetic alloy observed using off-axis electron holography and Lorentz microscopy. AIP Advances 6 (5), 056501 (2016)
Pradeep, K. G.; Herzer, G.; Raabe, D.: Atomic scale study of CU clustering and pseudo-homogeneous Fe-Si nanocrystallization in soft magnetic FeSiNbB(CU) alloys. Ultramicroscopy 159 (2), pp. 285 - 291 (2015)
Pradeep, K. G.; Tasan, C. C.; Yao, M.; Deng, Y.; Springer, H.; Raabe, D.: Non-equiatomic high entropy alloys: Approach towards rapid alloy screening and property-oriented design. Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 648, pp. 183 - 192 (2015)
Zhang, H.; Pradeep, K. G.; Mandal, S.; Ponge, D.; Raabe, D.: New insights into the austenitization process of low-alloyed hypereutectoid steels: Nucleation analysis of strain-induced austenite formation. Acta Materialia 80, pp. 296 - 308 (2014)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
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.
This project aims to investigate the dynamic hardness of B2-iron aluminides at high strain rates using an in situ nanomechanical tester capable of indentation up to constant strain rates of up to 100000 s−1 and study the microstructure evolution across strain rate range.