Enhanced magnetocaloric effects in Gd2In1-xAlx (0.4 ≤ x ≤ 1) system by the hysteresis-free metamagnetism
2020
Abstract By gradually substituting Al for In in Gd2In1-xAlx (0.4 ≤ x ≤ 1) system, the hexagonal structural for Gd2In1-xAlx (x ≤ 0.6) is gradually evolved into orthorhombic one for x ≥ 0.8. The phase transition temperature is monotonously decreased. Near the critical composition of x = 0.7, the second-order phase transformation in hexagonal Gd2In1-xAlx (x ≤ 0.6) is evolved into the first-order-like metamagnetic one without conventional hysteresis in orthorhombic Gd2In1-xAlx (x ≥ 0.7), leading into the enhanced magnetic entropy change and adiabatic temperature change. A lambda-like anomaly on the Cp-T curves is also caused. Due to being close to the phase borderline separating hexagonal and orthorhombic structure, such enhanced magnetocaloric effect is considered to be from the greatly distorted lattice.
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