The magnetocaloric properties of GdScSi and GdScGe

Samuel Couillaud (1) , Etienne Gaudin (1) , Victorino Franco (2) , Alejandro Conde (2) , Rainer Pöttgen (3) , Birgit Heying (3) , Ute Ch. Rodewald (3) , Bernard Chevalier (1)

1 ICMCB - Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux
2 Departamento de Fisica de Materia Condensada
3 Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie

The magnetocaloric properties of the ferromagnetic compounds GdScSi (T_C = 354(2) K) and GdScGe (T_C = 349(2) K) (tetragonal CeScSi-type structure refined from single crystal diffractometer data, space group I4/mmm) have been determined. The field dependence of the magnetic entropy ΔS_m change and of the refrigerant capacity RC have been obtained from magnetization measurements. At the T_C Curie temperature, ΔS_m for GdScSi and GdScGe is respectively equal to 2.5 and 3.3 J/kg_Gd K for a magnetic field change of 2 T; the values are comparable to those determined previously for Gd₇Pd₃ and Gd₄Bi₃ which exhibit also a T_C-temperature higher than room temperature. Both microstructural and the analysis of the magnetocaloric response are used to assess the single phase nature of the samples.

Keywords: Rare-earth; Intermetallic; Magnetic propeties

Domains: Material chemistry

Samuel Couillaud, Etienne Gaudin, Victorino Franco, Alejandro Conde, Rainer Pöttgen, et al.. The magnetocaloric properties of GdScSi and GdScGe. Intermetallics, 2011, 19 (10), pp.1573-1578. ⟨10.1016/j.intermet.2011.06.001⟩. ⟨hal-00617236⟩