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JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
Volume 60, Issue 3, Pages 454-459Publisher
KOREAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.3938/jkps.60.454
Keywords
Ni-Mn-Sb alloys; Magnetic properties; Magnetocaloric effect
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- National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) of Vietnam [103.02-2011.23]
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Ni0.5Mn0.5-xSbx (x = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4) ingots fabricated by arc-melting high-pure metals have been studied to determine their structure and magnetic properties and to identify the magnetocaloric effect. X-ray diffraction analyses reveal that the sample with x = 0.2 is close to a single phase in a cubic structure while the others have the secondary phases. This influences strongly the magnetic properties of Ni0.5Mn0.5-xSbx. With increasing Sb content, the Curie temperature (T-C) increases from similar to 210 (for x = 0.1) to 435 K (for x = 0.4). Among the studied alloys, two samples, x = 0.2 and 0.3, have the greatest saturation magnetization values, which were recorded at 300 K. Under an applied field of 12.0 kOe, the maximum magnetic entropy changes are about 1.0 and 0.5 J.kg(-1).K-1 for x = 0.2 and 0.3, respectively. Detailed analyses related to isothermal M-H curves in the vicinity of TC by using the modified Arrott method reveal that these samples undergo a second-order phase transition with critical exponents of beta = 0.40 +/- 0.01 and gamma = 1.27 +/- 0.08 for x = 0.2 and of beta = 0.69 +/- 0.09 and gamma = 0.85 +/- 0.10 for x = 0.3. The differences in the critical parameters are likely related to the presence of Ni-related secondary phases.
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