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Anisotropic Metamagnetic Spin Reorientation and Rotational Magnetocaloric Effect of Single Crystal NdAlGe
- Source :
- Materials, Vol 16, Iss 7, p 2771 (2023)
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2023.
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Abstract
- Magnetic anisotropy strongly influences the performance of the magnetocaloric effect. We investigated the magnetocaloric properties of the NdAlGe single crystal with I41md structure. The temperature-dependent magnetization revealed significant anisotropic properties; stable antiferromagnetic transition at TN = 6 K for H//a and meta-magnetic spin reorientation at low temperature (T ≤ 5 K) within an intermediate field (H = 2 T) for H//c. During the metamagnetic spin reorientation, the abrupt change of the magnetic entropy leads to a significant magnetocaloric effect with negative magnetic entropy change (∆SM) by −13.80 J kg−1 K−1 at TC = 5.5 K for H = 5 T along the H//c axis. In addition, the antiferromagnetic state for H//a shows the inverse magnetocaloric effect(I-MCE) by positive entropy change ∆SM = 2.64 J kg−1 K−1 at TN = 6 K for H = 5 T. This giant MCE accompanied by the metamagnetic transition resulted in a significantly large relative cooling power (158 J/kg at H = 5 T) for H//c. The giant MCE and I-MCE can be applied to the rotational magnetocaloric effect (R-MCE) depending on the crystal orientations. NdAlGe exhibits rotational entropy change ∆Sc−a = −12.85 J kg−1 K at Tpeak = 7.5 K, H = 5 T. With comparison to conventional MCE materials, NdAlGe is suggested as promising candidate of R-MCE, which is a novel type of magnetic refrigeration system.
- Subjects :
- rotational magnetocaloric effect
magnetocaloric effect
metamagnetic transition
NdAlGe
Technology
Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
TK1-9971
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
Microscopy
QH201-278.5
Descriptive and experimental mechanics
QC120-168.85
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19961944
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Materials
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.b1c80c3ee3d64599918d82a9fb7c04c9
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16072771