Magneto-caloric Effect in the La 0.7 Ca 0.3 Mn 1−x Ge x O 3 Compound
Jong-Soon Hwang · Mun-Chul Nam · Kyeong-Sup Kim · Seong-Cho Yu ∗
Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 361-763, Korea (Received 26 March 2014 : revised 18 April 2014 : accepted 18 April 2014)
The magneto-caloric effect and the magnetization behavior have been analyzed in the perovskite La
0.7Ca
0.3Mn
1−xGe
xO
3(x = 0.00, 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04, 0.05, 0.06, 0.07, wt.%) compound. Sam- ples were fabricated by using the conventional solid-state reaction method. X-ray diffraction mea- surements revealed that all the samples had a single phase with a perovskite structure. Detailed investigations of the changes in the magnetic entropy behavior of the samples with variations in T
Care discussed. Magnetic entropy changes, ∆S
M, of about 4.73 - 1.22 J/kg·K were obtained in the temperature range of 265 K - 160 K for the La
0.7Ca
0.3Mn
1−xGe
xO
3compound. The values of ∆S
Mdecreased with decreasing Ge content. The variation of the magnetic entropy change is believed to be due to changes in the microstructure, which changes the magnetic part of the entropy of a solid at temperatures around the magnetic ordering temperature.
PACS numbers: 75.30.sg
Keywords: Magneto-caloric effect, Magnetic entropy, Magnetization behavior
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PACS numbers: 75.30.sg
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