Relating microstructure to magnetocaloric properties in RE_(36)Tb_(20)Co_(20)Al_(24)(RE=Gd,Dy or Ho)high-entropy metallic-glass microwires designed by binary eutectic clusters method

The new high-entropy metallic-glasses(HE-MGs)are designed by using Dy and Ho to replace Gd in Gd_(36)Tb_(20)Co_(20)Al_(24)alloy based on the binary eutectic clusters method.Compared with the equiatomic Gd 25 Tb 25 Co 25 Al 25 HE-MG,the non-equiatomic RE_(36)Tb_(20)Co_(20)Al_(24)(RE=Gd,Dy,or Ho)alloys show bet-ter glass-forming ability,which is attributed to the deep binary eutectic compositions used for alloy de-sign.All RE_(36)Tb_(20)Co_(20)Al_(24)alloys undergo second-order magnetic transition.An extreme peak value of magnetic entropy change is obtained as 10.3 J kg^(-1) K-1(5 T)for the Ho_(36)Tb_(20)Co_(20)Al_(24)alloy.In-situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction was conducted to observe the microstructural difference among non-equiatomic samples at cryogenic temperatures.The results indicate that Gd_(36)Tb_(20)Co_(20)Al_(24)alloy possesses a relatively large average value of the dispersion of local clusters at a low-temperature range.This,com-bined with the critical exponentβclose to 0.5 of Gd_(36)Tb_(20)Co_(20)Al_(24)alloy,leads to its widest working temperature span among non-equiatomic samples.This work successfully establishes the connection be-tween microstructure and magnetocaloric properties of HE-MGs,which is beneficial for understanding the physical mechanism of the magnetocaloric behaviors of HE-MGs.