RESEARCH OF THE MAGNETOCALORIC PROPER- TIES IN Mn1.2Fe0.8P0.74Ge0.26-xSex COMPOUNDS
WANG Shaobo1, LIU Danmin1(), XIAO Weiqiang1, ZHANG Zhenlu1, YUE Ming2, ZHANG Jiuxing2
1 Institute of Microstructure and Property of Advanced Materials, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124 2 College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124
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WANG Shaobo, LIU Danmin, XIAO Weiqiang, ZHANG Zhenlu, YUE Ming, ZHANG Jiuxing. RESEARCH OF THE MAGNETOCALORIC PROPER- TIES IN Mn1.2Fe0.8P0.74Ge0.26-xSex COMPOUNDS. Acta Metall Sin, 2014, 50(9): 1109-1114.
Magnetic refrigeration based on the magnetocaloric effect offers a potential energy saving, atmosphere friendly way to replace vapor-compression refrigeration. In this work, Mn1.2Fe0.8P0.74Ge0.26-xSex (x=0, 0.005, 0.01, 0.015, 0.02, 0.03) compounds were prepared by mechanical milling and subsequent spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique, their crystal structures, phase transition process and magnetocaloric properties were investigated by XRD, DSC, VSM and direct measurement equipment of magnetocaloric effect. The results show that the Mn1.2Fe0.8P0.74Ge0.26-xSex compounds possess a hexagonal Fe2P-type crystal structure. With increasing Se concentration, the lattice parameters a and c change significantly. It causes c/a ratio decreases firstly, keeps unchanging and followed by increasing again. And the Curie temperature (Tc) of the compounds is increased with the decrease of the c/a ratio. Either applied magnetic field or temperature change can induce the magnetic transformation between the paramagnetic phase and ferromagnetic phase. Low substitution of Se for Ge (x≤0.015) in the Mn1.2Fe0.8P0.74Ge0.26-xSex compounds leads to higher Tc, narrower temperature range of the two-phase coexistence (?Tcoex) and larger adiabatic temperature change (?Tad), in addition the thermal hysteresis (?Thys) and entropy change (?SDSC) remain almost unaffected. 0.01 Se substitution leads to 5.6 K increase in Tc, 10.6% decrease in ?Tcoex, and 10% increase in ?Tad. With a further increase in Se content, magnetocaloric properties of compound decrease.
Fund: Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.51071007 and 51171003) and Key Research Project of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (No.KZ201410005005)
Fig.1 XRD spectra of Mn1.2Fe0.8P0.74Ge0.26-xSex compounds
x
a / nm
c / nm
c/a
Tc / K
?Thys / K
?Tcoex / K
?SDSC / (J·kg-1·K-1)
0
0.61088
0.34534
0.56531
280.2
2.7
8.5
24.1
0.005
0.61081
0.34527
0.56526
279.4
2.6
9.7
22.7
0.01
0.61123
0.34512
0.56464
285.8
3.2
7.6
24.4
0.015
0.61121
0.34504
0.56452
285.8
2.8
9.6
22.4
0.02
0.61132
0.34496
0.56429
285.8
3.0
12.1
23.1
0.03
0.61080
0.34503
0.56488
282.8
3.2
11.6
21.7
Table 1 Lattice parameters a and c at 333 K and the magnetocaloric properties of the Mn1.2Fe0.8P0.74Ge0.26-xSex compounds
Fig.2 DSC curves (a) and the temperatures (T) dependence of the entropy changes (∆SDSC) (b) of the Mn1.2Fe0.8P0.74Ge0.26-xSex compounds
Fig.3 Volume fraction of the paramagnetic phase during the paramagnetic (PM) to ferromagnetic (FM) transition for the Mn1.2Fe0.8P0.74Ge0.26-xSex (x=0, 0.01) compounds under the cooling process
Fig.4 Isothermal magnetization curves (increasing magnetic field mode) for Mn1.2Fe0.8P0.74Ge0.26-xSex compounds with x=0 (a) and x=0.01 (b) measured in external magnetic field change of 0~3 T (M—magnetization, H—external magnetic field, ∆T—temperature step)
Fig.5 Temperatures dependence of the magnetic entropy changes (∆SM) of Mn1.2Fe0.8P0.74Ge0.26-xSex (x=0, 0.01) compounds measured in a magnetic field changed from 0 to 1, 2 and 3 T
Fig.6 Temperatures dependence of adiabatic temperature changes (∆Tad) of Mn1.2Fe0.8P0.74Ge0.26-xSex (x=0, 0.01) compounds with a field change of 0~1.5 T
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