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Title: | Reversibility of minor hysteresis loops in magnetocaloric Heusler alloys |
Author: | Gottschall, Tino Stern Taulats, Enric Mañosa, Lluís Planes Vila, Antoni Skokov, Konstantin P. Gutfleisch, Oliver |
Keywords: | Ciència dels materials Aliatges Propietats magnètiques Materials science Alloys Magnetic properties |
Issue Date: | 29-May-2017 |
Publisher: | American Institute of Physics (AIP) |
Abstract: | The unavoidable existence of thermal hysteresis in magnetocaloric materials with a first-order phase transition is one of the central problems limiting their implementation in cooling devices. Using minor loops, however, allows achieving significant cyclic effects even in materials with relatively large hysteresis. Here, we compare thermometric measurements of the adiabatic temperature change Delta T-ad and calorimetric measurements of the isothermal entropy change Delta S-T when moving in minor hysteresis loops driven by magnetic fields. Under cycling in 2 T, the Ni-Mn-In-Co Heusler material provides a reversible magnetocaloric effect of Delta S-T(rev) = 10.5 J kg(-1) K-1 and Delta T-ad(rev) = 3.0 K. Even though the thermodynamic conditions and time scales are very different in adiabatic and isothermal minor loops, it turns out that after a suitable scaling, a self-consistent reversibility region in the entropy diagram is found. This region is larger than expected from basic thermodynamic considerations based on isofield measurements alone, which opens new opportunities in application. Published by AIP Publishing. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4984797 |
It is part of: | Applied Physics Letters, 2017, vol. 110, num. 22 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/191526 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4984797 |
ISSN: | 0003-6951 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Física de la Matèria Condensada) |
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