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    The influence of the in-plane lattice constant on the superconducting transition temperature of FeSe0.7Te0.3 thin films
    (New York : American Institute of Physics, 2017) Yuan, Feifei; Iida, Kazumasa; Grinenko, Vadim; Chekhonin, Paul; Pukenas, Aurimas; Skrotzki, Werner; Sakoda, Masahito; Naito, Michio; Sala, Alberto; Putti, Marina; Yamashita, Aichi; Takano, Yoshihiko; Shi, Zhixiang; Nielsch, Kornelius; Hühne, Ruben
    Epitaxial Fe(Se,Te) thin films were prepared by pulsed laser deposition on (La0.18Sr0.82)(Al0.59Ta0.41)O3 (LSAT), CaF2-buffered LSAT and bare CaF2 substrates, which exhibit an almost identical in-plane lattice parameter. The composition of all Fe(Se,Te) films were determined to be FeSe0.7Te0.3 by energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, irrespective of the substrate. Albeit the lattice parameters of all templates have comparable values, the in-plane lattice parameter of the FeSe0.7Te0.3 films varies significantly. We found that the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of FeSe0.7Te0.3 thin films is strongly correlated with their a-axis lattice parameter. The highest Tc of over 19 K was observed for the film on bare CaF2 substrate, which is related to unexpectedly large in-plane compressive strain originating mostly from the thermal expansion mismatch between the FeSe0.7Te0.3 film and the substrate.
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    Ti/Al multi-layered sheets: Differential speed rolling (Part B)
    (Basel : MDPI, 2016) Romberg, Jan; Freudenberger, Jens; Watanabe, Hiroyuki; Scharnweber, Juliane; Eschke, Andy; Kühn, Uta; Klauß, Hansjörg; Oertel, Carl-Georg; Skrotzki, Werner; Eckert, Jürgen; Schultz, Ludwig
    Differential speed rolling has been applied to multi-layered Ti/Al composite sheets, obtained from accumulative roll bonding with intermediate heat treatments being applied. In comparison to conventional rolling, differential speed rolling is more efficient in strengthening the composite due to the more pronounced grain refinement. Severe plastic deformation by means of rolling becomes feasible if the evolution of common rolling textures in the Ti layers is retarded. In this condition, a maximum strength level of the composites is achieved, i.e., an ultimate tensile strength of 464 MPa, while the strain to failure amounts to 6.8%. The deformation has been observed for multi-layered composites. In combination with the analysis of the microstructure, this has been correlated to the mechanical properties.
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    Ti/Al multi-layered sheets: Accumulative roll bonding (Part A)
    (Basel : MDPI, 2016) Romberg, Jan; Freudenberger, Jens; Bauder, Hansjörg; Plattner, Georg; Krug, Hans; Holländer, Frank; Scharnweber, Juliane; Eschke, Andy; Kühn, Uta; Klauß, Hansjörg; Oertel, Carl-Georg; Skrotzki, Werner; Eckert, Jürgen; Schultz, Ludwig
    Co-deformation of Al and Ti by accumulative roll bonding (ARB) with intermediate heat treatments is utilized to prepare multi-layered Ti/Al sheets. These sheets show a high specific strength due to the activation of various hardening mechanisms imposed during deformation, such as: hardening by grain refinement, work hardening and phase boundary hardening. The latter is even enhanced by the confinement of the layers during deformation. The evolution of the microstructure with a special focus on grain refinement and structural integrity is traced, and the correlation to the mechanical properties is shown.
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    Thermal stability and phase transformations of martensitic Ti-Nb alloys
    (Bristol : IOP Publishing, 2013) Bönisch, Matthias; Calin, Mariana; Waitz, Thomas; Panigrahi, Ajit; Zehetbauer, Michael; Gebert, Annett; Skrotzki, Werner; Eckert, Jürgen
    Aiming at understanding the governing microstructural phenomena during heat treatments of Ni-free Ti-based shape memory materials for biomedical applications, a series of Ti-Nb alloys with Nb concentrations up to 29 wt% was produced by cold-crucible casting, followed by homogenization treatment and water quenching. Despite the large amount of literature available concerning the thermal stability and ageing behavior of Ti-Nb alloys, only few studies were performed dealing with the isochronal transformation behavior of initially martensitic Ti-Nb alloys. In this work, the formation of martensites (α′ and α″) and their stability under different thermal processing conditions were investigated by a combination of x-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry, dilatometry and electron microscopy. The effect of Nb additions on the structural competition in correlation with stable and metastable phase diagrams was also studied. Alloys with 24 wt% Nb or less undergo a transformation sequence on heating from room temperature to 1155 K. In alloys containing >24 wt% Nb α″ martensitically reverts back to β0, which is highly unstable against chemical demixing by formation of isothermal ωiso. During slow cooling from the single phase β domain α precipitates and only very limited amounts of α″ martensite form.
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    Hall-plot of the phase diagram for Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2
    (London : Nature Publishing Group, 2016) Iida, Kazumasa; Grinenko, Vadim; Kurth, Fritz; Ichinose, Ataru; Tsukada, Ichiro; Ahrens, Eike; Pukenas, Aurimas; Chekhonin, Paul; Skrotzki, Werner; Teresiak, Angelika; Hühne, Ruben; Aswartham, Saicharan; Wurmehl, Sabine; Erbe, Manuela; Hänisch, Jens; Holzapfel, Bernhard; Drechsler, Stefan-Ludwig; Efremov, Dmitri V.
    The Hall effect is a powerful tool for investigating carrier type and density. For single-band materials, the Hall coefficient is traditionally expressed simply by , where e is the charge of the carrier, and n is the concentration. However, it is well known that in the critical region near a quantum phase transition, as it was demonstrated for cuprates and heavy fermions, the Hall coefficient exhibits strong temperature and doping dependencies, which can not be described by such a simple expression, and the interpretation of the Hall coefficient for Fe-based superconductors is also problematic. Here, we investigate thin films of Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 with compressive and tensile in-plane strain in a wide range of Co doping. Such in-plane strain changes the band structure of the compounds, resulting in various shifts of the whole phase diagram as a function of Co doping. We show that the resultant phase diagrams for different strain states can be mapped onto a single phase diagram with the Hall number. This universal plot is attributed to the critical fluctuations in multiband systems near the antiferromagnetic transition, which may suggest a direct link between magnetic and superconducting properties in the BaFe2As2 system.