Günther Redhammer

Assoz.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Günther Redhammer

Jakob-Haringer-Strasse 2a, 5020 Salzburg

Tel.: +43-662-8044-6235
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Research Interests:

Minerals are the essential components of our earth. But they are also a great treasure and a comprehensive library for the development of new materials for modern technologies such as energy conversion and storage. The behaviour of a material under different thermodynamic conditions (pressure, temperature, electrochemical potential, …) as well as the transport behaviours of ions is closely linked to the internal crystal structure.

A core point of my research is aimed at the fundamental investigation of the crystal structure and transport properties of minerals/materials as a function of temperature and chemical composition. Particular attention is also paid to structural phase transitions and the behaviours of a structure in the critical area.

The main analytics for such investigations are diffraction methods (lab-based and large-scale facility X-rays, neutrons) on polycrystalline samples and single crystals. The findings are complemented by spectroscopic methods such as ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy, Raman and IR spectroscopy. This makes it possible to characterize local and long-range properties of a material.

We are operatively running the X-ray diffraction lab of the Department and operate one of the last remaining ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer labs in the German Speaking area.

Lectures:

Einführung in die Allgemeine Mineralogie & Kristallographie

Einführung in die Spezielle Mineralogie

Materials Characterization I (Diffraction)

Geomaterials

Mineralogy I & II

Energy & Resources (with Simone Pokrant)

Chemie und Physik des Festkörpers (Oliver Diwald, Thomas Berger, Günther Redhammer)

Materialwissenschaften I (Oliver Diwald, Thomas Berge, Günther Redhammer)