Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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11008829 | Current Applied Physics | 2018 | 20 Pages |
Abstract
The influence of crystallization treatment on the structure, magnetic properties and magnetocaloric effect of Gd71Ni29 melt-spun ribbons has been investigated in detail. Annealing of the melt-spun samples at 610â¯K for 30â¯min, a majority phase with a Fe3C-type orthorhombic structure (space group, Pnma) and a minority phase with a CrB-type orthorhombic structure (space group, Cmcm) were obtained in the amorphous matrix. The amorphous melt-spun ribbons undergo a second-order ferromagnetic to paramagnetic phase transition at 122â¯K. For the annealed samples, two magnetic phase transitions caused by amorphous matrix and Gd3Ni phases occur at 82 and 100â¯K, respectively. The maximum magnetic entropy change (-ÎSM)max is 9.0â¯J/(kgËK) (5T) at 122â¯K for the melt-spun ribbons. The values of (-ÎSM)max in annealed ribbons are 1.0 and 5.7â¯J/(kgËK), corresponding to the two adjacent magnetic transitions.
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Authors
X.C. Zhong, H.Y. Yu, Z.W. Liu, R.V. Ramanujan,