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MATERIALS & DESIGN
Volume 114, Issue -, Pages 214-219Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2016.11.085
Keywords
Magnetocaloric effect; Magnetic multilayers; Magnetic entropy change; Curie temperature distribution; Finite size scaling
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- Spanish MINECO
- EU-FEDER [MAT2013-45165-P, MAT2016-77265-R]
- PAI of the Regional Government of Andalucia
- Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation [2582]
- FPU fellowship from Spanish MECD
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In this work, the field dependence of the magnetocaloric effect of Gd bulk samples has been enhanced through nanostructuring of the material. Nanostructuring consists in multilayers preparation by alternative rf-sputtering deposition of Gd layers and Ti spacers onto glass substrates. The results obtained for the multilayers were compared to those obtained for the Gd bulk. Assuming a power law for the field dependence of the magnetic entropy change (Delta S-M alpha H-n), higher field dependences close to the transition in a wider temperature range are obtained for the multilayer material (n=1.0) with respect to the bulk counterpart (n=0.78). The effect of a Curie temperature distribution in the multilayer material (due to variations of the layer thickness) has been studied through numerical simulations to explain the observed field dependence of the magnetocaloric effect, obtaining a remarkable agreement between experiments and results. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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