https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20122900045
Europium substitution effects on structural, magnetic and magnetocaloric properties in La0.5Ca0.5MnO3
1 Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux, Faculté des Sciences de Sfax, B. P. 1171, 3000 Sfax, Tunisie
2 Institut NEEL, CNRS, B.P.166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
a e-mail: akramkri@hotmail.fr
We have investigated structural, magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of polycrystalline samples La0.5-xEuxCa0.5MnO3 (x=0 and 0.1). Rietveld refinement of the X-ray diffraction patterns show that our samples are single phase and crystallize in the orthorhombic structure with Pnma space group. Magnetization measurements versus temperature at a magnetic applied field of 500 Oe indicate that La0.4Eu0.1Ca0.5MnO3 sample exhibits a paramagnetic to ferromagnetic transition with decreasing temperature. Magnetic measurements reveal strong magnetocaloric effect in the vicinity of the Curie temperature TC. The parent compound shows a negative magnetic entropy change of ∆SM=−1.13Jkg−1K−1 at 220K and a positive magnetocaloric effects ∆SM=1Jkg−1K−1 at 150K under a magnetic applied field of 2T. La0.4Eu0.1Ca0.5MnO3 exhibits a maximum value of magnetic entropy change ∆SM=−1.15Jkg−1K−1 at 130K under an applied field of 2T and a large relative cooling power RCP with a maximum value of 72 J/kg.
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