Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Structural, Mechanical and Material Engineering

Magnetocaloric properties in the PrFe2Ge2 antiferromgnet

Authors
Zhiyu Xu, Wenjie Gong, Anli Lin, Yan Zhang, Licheng Wang
Corresponding Author
Zhiyu Xu
Available Online November 2015.
DOI
10.2991/icsmme-15.2015.28How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Prfe2ge2, Antiferromagnet, Metamagnetic Transition, Magnetocaloric Effect
Abstract

Magnetic properties and magnetocaloric effects (MCE) of the tetragonal (ThCr2Si2-type) PrFe2Ge2 compound are investigated. The compound is determined to be antiferromagnet with the Néel temperature TN=14.5 K and undergoes a transition towards an incommensurate modulated structure at 7 K. A field-induced metamagnetic transition from antiferromagnetic (AFM) to ferromagnetic (FM) state occurs at 5 K under the critical magnetic field of 11 kOe. The maximum values of magnetic entropy change ( S) are –1.1 J/kg K and –6.3 J/kg K for the field changes of 0-20 kOe and 0-70 kOe, respectively. The large MCE with no hysteresis loss renders PrFe2Ge2 a competitive candidate for low temperature magnetic refrigerant.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Structural, Mechanical and Material Engineering
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
November 2015
ISBN
978-94-6252-144-5
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/icsmme-15.2015.28How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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