Electronic Structure and Phase Transitions
(G04)
Subject Area
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Term
from 2014 to 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 107745057
In intermetallic compounds, the realized materials properties are governed by the actual atomic arrangements. We will study the effect of disorder by correlating mainly neutron diffraction experiments with measurements of macroscopic parameters and derive pertinent microscopic models. This will be done specifically in Ni2Mn-based Heusler systems, which display functional potentials including, e.g., large ferromagnetic shape-memory and magnetocaloric effects as well as ferromagnetic half-metallicity.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios