Published January 29, 2016
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Publication
Tunable magnetocaloric effect in Gd-based glassy ribbons
Description
The series of glassy ribbons Gd
60
M
30
In
10
(
M
¼
Mn, Co, Ni, Cu) was synthesized by melt-spinning.
The change of transition element
M
in these Gd-based metallic glasses was proven to induce huge
variations of the Curie temperature T
C
, magnetic entropy change peak values
D
S
m
peak
, and widths
at half maximum values of the magnetic entropy change
d
T. When
M
is non magnetic (
M
¼
Co,
Ni, Cu), the samples behave similarly: they display high values of
D
S
m
peak
(between -6.6 and -8.2
J/kg K in a magnetic field variation of 4.6 T), average
d
T values (between 77 and 120 K) and no
magnetic hysteresis. On the contrary, when
M
carries a magnetic moment (
M
¼
Mn), some irrever-
sibility appears at low temperature,
D
S
m
peak
is lower (only 3.1 J/kg K for
l
0
H
¼
4.6 T) and the
magnetic transition is very large (
d
T
¼
199 K for
l
0
H
¼
4.6 T). These features are explained by
some antiparallel coupling between Mn atoms randomly located in the metallic glass. This leads to
the occurrence of a cluster-glass behavior at low temperature (35 K), following the ferromagnetic
transition observed at 180 K when the temperature is decreased. Also, power law fittings of
D
S
m
peak
and
d
T versus
l
0
H were performed and show that
d
T is less field dependent than
D
S
m
peak
.We
could then identify an interesting way of improving the refrigeration capacity of the material at low
magnetic field.
Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- https://idus.us.es/handle/11441/33600
- URN
- urn:oai:idus.us.es:11441/33600