The crystal structure, magnetic and magnetocaloric characteristics of the pseduo ternary compounds of TbsGe2-xSi2-xMn2x （0 ≤ 2x ≤ 0.1） were investigated by x-ray powder diffraction and magnetization measurements. ...The crystal structure, magnetic and magnetocaloric characteristics of the pseduo ternary compounds of TbsGe2-xSi2-xMn2x （0 ≤ 2x ≤ 0.1） were investigated by x-ray powder diffraction and magnetization measurements. The x-ray powder diffraction results show that all compounds preserve the monoclinic phase as the majority phase and all the synthesized compounds were observed to be ferromagnetic from magnetization measurements. Magnetic phase transitions were interpreted in terms of Landau theory. Maximum isothermal magnetic entropy change value （20.84 J-kg-1 -K-1） was found for Tb5Ge1.95Si1.95Mn0.1 at around 123 K in the magnetic field change of 5T.展开更多
基金Project supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey under Project No. 104T382
文摘The crystal structure, magnetic and magnetocaloric characteristics of the pseduo ternary compounds of TbsGe2-xSi2-xMn2x （0 ≤ 2x ≤ 0.1） were investigated by x-ray powder diffraction and magnetization measurements. The x-ray powder diffraction results show that all compounds preserve the monoclinic phase as the majority phase and all the synthesized compounds were observed to be ferromagnetic from magnetization measurements. Magnetic phase transitions were interpreted in terms of Landau theory. Maximum isothermal magnetic entropy change value （20.84 J-kg-1 -K-1） was found for Tb5Ge1.95Si1.95Mn0.1 at around 123 K in the magnetic field change of 5T.
