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Large reversible magnetocaloric effect due to a rather unstable antiferromagnetic ground state in Er4NiCd

Hermes, Wilfried LU ; Rodewald, Ute Ch. and Poettgen, Rainer (2010) In Applied Physics Reviews 108(11).
Abstract
Er4NiCd crystallizes with the Gd4RhIn type structure, space group F (4) over bar 3m, a=1333.3 pm. The nickel atoms have trigonal prismatic rare earth coordination. Condensation of the NiEr6 prisms leads to a three-dimensional network which leaves voids that are filled by regular Cd-4 tetrahedra. Er4NiCd shows Curie-Weiss behavior above 50 K with T-N=5.9 K. At field strength of 4 kOe a metamagnetic step is visible, together with the positive paramagnetic Curie-temperature (7.5 K) indicative for the rather unstable antiferromagnetic ground state. Therefore, a large reversible magnetocaloric effect (MCE) near the ordering temperature occurs and the values of the maximum magnetic-entropy change -Delta S-M(max) reach 18.3 J kg(-1) K-1 for the... (More)
Er4NiCd crystallizes with the Gd4RhIn type structure, space group F (4) over bar 3m, a=1333.3 pm. The nickel atoms have trigonal prismatic rare earth coordination. Condensation of the NiEr6 prisms leads to a three-dimensional network which leaves voids that are filled by regular Cd-4 tetrahedra. Er4NiCd shows Curie-Weiss behavior above 50 K with T-N=5.9 K. At field strength of 4 kOe a metamagnetic step is visible, together with the positive paramagnetic Curie-temperature (7.5 K) indicative for the rather unstable antiferromagnetic ground state. Therefore, a large reversible magnetocaloric effect (MCE) near the ordering temperature occurs and the values of the maximum magnetic-entropy change -Delta S-M(max) reach 18.3 J kg(-1) K-1 for the field change of 5 T with no obvious hysteresis loss around 17 K. The corresponding RCP of 595 J kg(-1) is relatively high as compared to other MCE materials in that temperature range. These results indicate that Er4NiCd could be a promising system for magnetic refrigeration at temperatures below liquid H-2. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3518556] (Less)
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  author       = {{Hermes, Wilfried and Rodewald, Ute Ch. and Poettgen, Rainer}},
  issn         = {{1931-9401}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{11}},
  publisher    = {{American Institute of Physics (AIP)}},
  series       = {{Applied Physics Reviews}},
  title        = {{Large reversible magnetocaloric effect due to a rather unstable antiferromagnetic ground state in Er4NiCd}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3518556}},
  doi          = {{10.1063/1.3518556}},
  volume       = {{108}},
  year         = {{2010}},
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