Affiliation:
1. Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences
2. Chelyabinsk State University
Abstract
Experimental studies of the magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of the Laves phase of GdNi2 have been carried out in external static up to 3 T and pulsed up to 50 T magnetic fields. It has been found that in a magnetic field of 3 T the change in the magnetic entropy of the alloy reaches its maximum value ΔSm = −8 J/(kg K) in the vicinity of the Curie temperature TC = 73.6 K. The corresponding adiabatic temperature change in this case, calculated by an indirect method, is ΔTad ≈ 3 K. The maximum value of the adiabatic temperature change measured by the direct method in a pulsed magnetic field of 50 T at T0 = 77 K, was equal to ΔTad = 15 K, which agrees well with theoretical predictions.
Publisher
The Russian Academy of Sciences