The recent progress of magnetic refrigeration technique at room temperature, especially in magnetic refrigerant materials with respect to Gd-Si-Ge, La-Fe-Si, Mn-Fe-P-As which has GMCE was reported. Also the recent pro...The recent progress of magnetic refrigeration technique at room temperature, especially in magnetic refrigerant materials with respect to Gd-Si-Ge, La-Fe-Si, Mn-Fe-P-As which has GMCE was reported. Also the recent progress in magnetic refrigerator design was reviewed.展开更多
In the present work we reported the phase formation, microstructure, magnetocaloric effect and hydrogenation behavior of La-rich La1.7Fe11.6Si1.4alloy. In this off-stoichiometric La（Fe,Si）13alloy, the Na Zn13-type L...In the present work we reported the phase formation, microstructure, magnetocaloric effect and hydrogenation behavior of La-rich La1.7Fe11.6Si1.4alloy. In this off-stoichiometric La（Fe,Si）13alloy, the Na Zn13-type La（Fe,Si）13matrix phase shows faceted grains, with the Cr5B3-type La5Si3 used as the secondary phase distributed intergranularly. Such a peculiar morphology quickly forms upon one day annealing. In La1.7Fe11.6Si1.4alloy, we have observed a significant field dependence of magnetostructural transition temperature（～ 6.3 K/T）, resulting in a large and table-like entropy change（△S～ 18 J/kg·K in 2 T） over a broad temperature range（～ 10 K）. Upon hydrogenation, the maximum value of △S keeps almost unchanged, while the Curie temperature increases up to 350 K. These results indicate that the investigated offstoichiometric La（Fe,Si）13alloy is a promising magnetic material for magnetic refrigerators.展开更多
The microstructure, magnetic entropy changes, hysteresis and magnetic properties of La_（0.8）Ce_（0.2）Fe_（11.5）Al_（1.5–x）Si_x（x=0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7） compounds were studied by X-ray diffraction（XRD） and a sup...The microstructure, magnetic entropy changes, hysteresis and magnetic properties of La_（0.8）Ce_（0.2）Fe_（11.5）Al_（1.5–x）Si_x（x=0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7） compounds were studied by X-ray diffraction（XRD） and a superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer（SQUID）. The results showed that all the compounds presented cubic Na Zn13-type structure. Their Curie temperatures changed complicatedly with decreasing Al content due to changes of antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic interaction. Under a field change from 0 to 2 T, the maximum magnetic entropy change for La_（0.8）Ce_（0.2）Fe_（11.5）Al_（1.1）Si_（0.4）, La_（0.8）Ce_（0.2）Fe_（11.5）Al_（1.0）Si_（0.5）, La_（0.8）Ce_（0.2）Fe_（11.5）Al_（0.9）Si_（0.6） and La_（0.8）Ce_（0.2）Fe_（11.5）Al_（0.8）Si_（0.7） were found to be –9.6, –4.8, –5.8 and –11.7 J/（kg·K）, respectively. Moreover, their hysteresis losses were 1.13 J/（kg·K） or less. The large magnetic entropy changed and small hysteresis losses made them potential candidates for practical magnetic refrigeration application.展开更多
文摘The recent progress of magnetic refrigeration technique at room temperature, especially in magnetic refrigerant materials with respect to Gd-Si-Ge, La-Fe-Si, Mn-Fe-P-As which has GMCE was reported. Also the recent progress in magnetic refrigerator design was reviewed.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51371184)the Outstanding Youth Fund of Zhejiang Province,China(Grant No.LR14E010001)
文摘In the present work we reported the phase formation, microstructure, magnetocaloric effect and hydrogenation behavior of La-rich La1.7Fe11.6Si1.4alloy. In this off-stoichiometric La（Fe,Si）13alloy, the Na Zn13-type La（Fe,Si）13matrix phase shows faceted grains, with the Cr5B3-type La5Si3 used as the secondary phase distributed intergranularly. Such a peculiar morphology quickly forms upon one day annealing. In La1.7Fe11.6Si1.4alloy, we have observed a significant field dependence of magnetostructural transition temperature（～ 6.3 K/T）, resulting in a large and table-like entropy change（△S～ 18 J/kg·K in 2 T） over a broad temperature range（～ 10 K）. Upon hydrogenation, the maximum value of △S keeps almost unchanged, while the Curie temperature increases up to 350 K. These results indicate that the investigated offstoichiometric La（Fe,Si）13alloy is a promising magnetic material for magnetic refrigerators.
基金Project supported by the Science and Technology Development Fund of Higher Education of Tianjin,China(20130301)the Tianjin Research Program of Application Foundation and Advanced Technology,China(14JCQNJC4000)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11604242)
文摘The microstructure, magnetic entropy changes, hysteresis and magnetic properties of La_（0.8）Ce_（0.2）Fe_（11.5）Al_（1.5–x）Si_x（x=0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7） compounds were studied by X-ray diffraction（XRD） and a superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer（SQUID）. The results showed that all the compounds presented cubic Na Zn13-type structure. Their Curie temperatures changed complicatedly with decreasing Al content due to changes of antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic interaction. Under a field change from 0 to 2 T, the maximum magnetic entropy change for La_（0.8）Ce_（0.2）Fe_（11.5）Al_（1.1）Si_（0.4）, La_（0.8）Ce_（0.2）Fe_（11.5）Al_（1.0）Si_（0.5）, La_（0.8）Ce_（0.2）Fe_（11.5）Al_（0.9）Si_（0.6） and La_（0.8）Ce_（0.2）Fe_（11.5）Al_（0.8）Si_（0.7） were found to be –9.6, –4.8, –5.8 and –11.7 J/（kg·K）, respectively. Moreover, their hysteresis losses were 1.13 J/（kg·K） or less. The large magnetic entropy changed and small hysteresis losses made them potential candidates for practical magnetic refrigeration application.
