Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 166, Issue -, Pages 459-465Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2019.01.007
Keywords
Magnetocaloric effect; Phase transitions; Heusler alloys
Funding
- AEI (Agencia Estatal de Investigacion) [MAT-2016-77265-R]
- PAI of the Regional Government of Andalucia
- FPU fellowship from MECD
- US Army Research Laboratory's Energy Coupled to Matter - Metals Program
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It is usually claimed that structural and magnetic transitions should coincide to improve the total entropy change. Here we show that overlapping structural and magnetic transitions can compete with each other, which gives rise to some signature of the competition misinterpreted as an experimental artifact of the measurements as observed in Ni49+xMn36-xIn15 (nominally x = 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0) investigated in this work. Their various magnetic phase transitions show a low temperature conventional magnetocaloric effect (MCE), an inverse MCE followed by another high temperature conventional MCE. For concurrent phase transitions with their respective transition temperatures close to one another, an observed spike embedded in the high temperature conventional MCE region is found arising from the martensitic transformation. We show that a crossover of the magnetic field dependence of the transition temperatures is obtained for concurrent phase transitions occurring in a narrow temperature range. As an evidence of the complexity of overlapping phase transitions, a recently proposed quantitative method for determining the order of phase transition is applied to this compositional series, showing its applicability even to cases when first- and second-order phase transitions occur in a narrow temperature range. (C) 2019 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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