Optimizing the Curie temperature of pseudo-binary RxR2-x ' Fe-17 (R, R ' = rare earth) for magnetic refrigeration


Autoria(s): Álvarez Alonso, Pablo; Gorria, Pedro; Cuello, Gabriel; Puente Orench, Inés; Sánchez Llamazares, José L.; Franco, Victorino; Reiffers, Marian; Blanco, Jesús A.
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03/03/2016

03/03/2016

2014

Resumo

Several pseudo-binary RxR2-x'Fe-17 alloys (with R = Y, Ce, Pr, Gd and Dy) were synthesized with rhombohedral Th2Zn17-type crystal structure determined from x-ray and neutron powder diffraction. The choice of compositions was done with the aim of tuning the Curie temperature (T-C) in the 270 +/- 20 K temperature range, in order to obtain the maximum magneto-caloric effect around room temperature. The investigated compounds exhibit broad isothermal magnetic entropy changes, Delta S-M(T), with moderate values of the refrigerant capacity, even though the values of Delta S-M(Peak) are relatively low compared with those of the R2Fe17 compounds with R = Pr or Nd. The reduction on the Delta S-M(Peak) is explained in terms of the diminution in the saturation magnetization value. Furthermore, the Delta S-M(T) curves exhibit a similar caret-like behavior, suggesting that the magneto-caloric effect is mainly governed by the Fe-sublattice. A single master curve for Delta S-M/Delta S-M(Peak)(T) under different values of the magnetic field change are obtained for each compound by rescaling of the temperature axis.

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6th Meeting of the Spanish Neutron Scattering Association (SETN2012) 549 2014 : (2014) Article ID 012019

http://hdl.handle.net/10810/17500

10.1088/1742-6596/549/1/012019

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eng

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IOP Publishing

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