摘要
A large and reversible magnetocaloric effect is found in the compound DyB2, which is associated with two successive mag- netic transitions： a spin-reorientation-like transition followed by a ferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition. These two transitions appreciably enlarge the magnetic-refrigeration temperature window and yield a huge refrigeration capacity of 610 J kg^-1, with a maximum magnetic entropy change -ASmax of 17 J kg^-1K^-1, at a magnetic-field change of 5 T. The corresponding values for low magnetic-field change of 2 T are 193 J kg^-1 and 7.4 J kg-lK^-1, respectively.
基金
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50831006)
the National Basic Research Program of China ("973" Project) (Grant No. 2010CB934603)
