Swaminathan, S.; Spiegel, M.; Rohwerder, M.: Effect of annealing conditions on the selective oxidation of quarternary model alloy. 4th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids, Barcelona, Spain (2008)
Swaminathan, S.; Koll, T.; Pohl, M.; Spiegel, M.: Hot-dip galvanizing simulation of model alloys and industrial steel grades: Correlation between surface chemistry and wettability. GALVATECH `07, 7th International Conference on Zinc and Zinc Alloy Coated Steel Sheet, Osaka, Japan (2007)
Swaminathan, S.; Spiegel, M.: Effect of alloy composition on the selective oxidation of ternary Fe–Si–Cr, Fe–Mn–Cr model alloys. ECASIA 2007, 12th European Conference on Applications of Surface and Interface Analysis, Brussels-Flggey, Belgium (2007)
Auinger, M.; Swaminathan, S.; Rohwerder, M.: The Influence of Oxide Formation on the Diffusion Properties in Iron Alloys - The Thermogravimetric Behaviour in Early Stages of Oxidation. Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar on High Temperature Corrosion and Gordon-Research Conference on High Temperature Corrosion, New London, NH, USA (2011)
Vogel, D.; Swaminathan, S.; Rohwerder, M.; Renner, F. U.: Possibilities for high-temperature corrosion at MPIE. International Symposium on High-temperature Oxidation and Corrosion, Zushi, Japan (2010)
Vogel, A.; Swaminathan, S.; Vogel, D.; Rohwerder, M.: Novel Setup for Metal/Gas Reactions at High Temperature. 6th International Conference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids: Mass Transfer, Heat Transfer and Microstructure and Properties, Paris, France (2010)
Swaminathan, S.: Selective surface oxidation and segregation upon short term annealing of model alloys and industrial steel grades. Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Bochum, Germany (2007)
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.