Aksyonov, D. A.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.; Lipnitskii, A. G.: The impact of carbon and oxygen in alpha-titanium: ab initio study of solution enthalpies and grain boundary segregation. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 28 (38), 385001 (2016)
Bleskov, I.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.; Ruban, A. V.: Impact of local magnetism on stacking fault energies: A first-principles investigation for fcc iron. Physical Review B 93 (21), 214115 (2016)
Körmann, F.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Influence of magnetic excitations on the phase stability of metals and steels. Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 20 (2), pp. 77 - 84 (2016)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
In this project we developed a phase-field model capable of describing multi-component and multi-sublattice ordered phases, by directly incorporating the compound energy CALPHAD formalism based on chemical potentials. We investigated the complex compositional pathway for the formation of the η-phase in Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloys during commercial…
The fracture toughness of AuXSnY intermetallic compounds is measured as it is crucial for the reliability of electronic chips in industrial applications.
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.
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.