Peter Müllner

I like microstructures of crystalline materials. I have worked on the formation and characterization of microstructures, including phase transformations, defect characterization and modeling defect interaction. The objects of study included structural materials (austenitic steel) and functional materials; metals, ceramics, intermetallics, and semiconductors; materials in bulk form and thin films. I was mainly concerned with mechanical properties, more recently also with magnetic properties. While perambulating through a variety of topics (plasticity of steels, ferroelasticity of ceramics, microstructure and phase transformation of metallic thin films, magnetoplasticity of magnetic shape-memory alloys), I always liked to ponder the formation of crystallographic twins, their formation, and their description in the language of dislocations and disclinations. The magneto-mechanics of magnetic shape-memory alloys is the field of my primary interest nowadays.

Since about 2010, I became also interested in transferring magnetic shape memory technology to the market. In 2015, I started Shaw Mountain Technology LLC, which produces MSM-based devices.

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