Marquardt, O.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures including strain and piezoelectric effects. PARSEM meeting and workshop, Cambridge, UK (2008)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio Investigations of Temperature Dependent Effects in MSM Alloys. Antragskolloquium SPP1239, Dresden, Germany (2008)
Grabowski, B.; Ismer, L.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio up to the melting point: Influence of vacancies and explicit anharmonicity. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Berlin, Germany (2008)
Marquardt, O.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Plane-wave implementation of the k.p-formalism including strain and piezoelectricity to study the optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Berlin, Germany (2008)
Uijttewaal, M.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Phase transformations of Ni2MnGa shape memory alloy from first principles. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Berlin, Germany (2008)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: First principles Determination of Phase Transitions in Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys. Group Seminar in Materials Department, University of California (UCSB), Santa Barbara, CA, USA (2008)
Marquardt, O.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures, a PW-approach to real-space properties. MRL seminar at UCSB, UCSB, Santa Barbara, USA (2008)
Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: From ab initio to materials properties: Accuracy and error bars of DFT thermodynamics. Phonon Workshop, Krakau, Poland (2007)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: Determination of symmetry reduced structures by a soft-phonon analysis in magnetic shape memory alloys. 2nd Workshop on ab initio phonon calculations, Cracow, Poland (2007)
Uijttewaal, M.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Phase transformation of Ni_2MnGa shape memory alloy from first principles: The pre-martensitic transition. PAW workshop 2007, Goslar, Germany (2007)
Uijttewaal, M.; Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: First ab initio determination of the phase transformation of Ni_{2}MnGa: The pre-martensitic transition. e-MRS 2007 Fall Meeting, Warsaw, Poland (2007)
Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: From ab initio to materials properties: Accuracy and error bars of DFT thermodynamics. Euromat 2007, European Congress on Advanced Materials and Processes, Nürnberg, Germany (2007)
Hickel, T.; Grabowski, B.; Uijttewaal, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio prediction of structural and thermodynamic properties of magnetic shape memory alloys. Euromat 2007, European Congress on Advanced Materials and Processes, Nürnberg, Germany (2007)
Hydrogen in aluminium can cause embrittlement and critical failure. However, the behaviour of hydrogen in aluminium was not yet understood. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung were able to locate hydrogen inside aluminium’s microstructure and designed strategies to trap the hydrogen atoms inside the microstructure. This can…
Oxidation and corrosion of noble metals is a fundamental problem of crucial importance in the advancement of the long-term renewable energy concept strategy. In our group we use state-of-the-art electrochemical scanning flow cell (SFC) coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) setup to address the problem.
For understanding the underlying hydrogen embrittlement mechanism in transformation-induced plasticity steels, the process of damage evolution in a model austenite/martensite dual-phase microstructure following hydrogenation was investigated through multi-scale electron channelling contrast imaging and in situ optical microscopy.
We will investigate the electrothermomechanical response of individual metallic nanowires as a function of microstructural interfaces from the growth processes. This will be accomplished using in situ SEM 4-point probe-based electrical resistivity measurements and 2-point probe-based impedance measurements, as a function of mechanical strain and…
This project aims to investigate the influence of grain boundaries on mechanical behavior at ultra-high strain rates and low temperatures. For this micropillar compressions on copper bi-crystals containing different grain boundaries will be performed.
Hydrogen induced embrittlement of metals is one of the long standing unresolved problems in Materials Science. A hierarchical multiscale approach is used to investigate the underlying atomistic mechanisms.
Hydrogen embrittlement affects high-strength ferrite/martensite dual-phase (DP) steels. The associated micromechanisms which lead to failure have not been fully clarified yet. Here we present a quantitative micromechanical analysis of the microstructural damage phenomena in a model DP steel in the presence of hydrogen.
This project will aim at developing MEMS based nanoforce sensors with capacitive sensing capabilities. The nanoforce sensors will be further incorporated with in situ SEM and TEM small scale testing systems, for allowing simultaneous visualization of the deformation process during mechanical tests
The project aims to study corrosion, a detrimental process with an enormous impact on global economy, by combining denstiy-functional theory calculations with thermodynamic concepts.