Magnetic field induced entropy change and magnetoelasticity in Ni-Mn-Ga alloys

The magnetocaloric effect that originates from the martensitic transition in the ferromagnetic Ni-Mn-Ga shape-memory alloy is studied. We show that this effect is controlled by the magnetostructural coupling at both the martensitic variant and magnetic domain length scales. A large entropy change in...

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Autores: Marcos, Jordi, Planes Vila, Antoni, Mañosa, Lluís, Casanova i Fernàndez, Fèlix, Batlle Gelabert, Xavier, Labarta, Amílcar, Martínez Benjamin, Joan Josep
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2002
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/10525
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/10525
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Transformacions martensítiques
Magnetostricció
Entropia
Aliatges
Materials ferromagnètics
Martensitic transformations
Magnetostriction
Entropy
Alloys
Ferromagnetic materials
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Sumario:The magnetocaloric effect that originates from the martensitic transition in the ferromagnetic Ni-Mn-Ga shape-memory alloy is studied. We show that this effect is controlled by the magnetostructural coupling at both the martensitic variant and magnetic domain length scales. A large entropy change induced by moderate magnetic fields is obtained for alloys in which the magnetic moment of the two structural phases is not very different. We also show that this entropy change is not associated with the entropy difference between the martensitic and the parent phase arising from the change in the crystallographic structure which has been found to be independent of the magnetic field within this range of fields.