Published November 9, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Magnetocaloric effect in La(FexSi1-x)13 doped with hydrogen and under external pressure

  • 1. Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro, Rua Sao Francisco Xavier 524, Rio de Janeiro, 20550-013 RJ (Brazil)

Description

In this paper, we calculate the magnetocaloric effect in the compounds La(FexSi1-x)13 doped with hydrogen and subjected to external pressure. We use a microscopical model where the Coulomb interaction between itinerant electrons is treated in the mean field approach. The effect of hydrogen atoms is considered as a chemical pressure. We also include phenomenologically the magnetoelastic coupling via the renormalization of the electron dispersion relation and the Debye temperature. The calculated isothermal entropy changes upon magnetic field variations for the compound La(Fe0.88Si0.12)13Hy are in good agreement with the available experimental data

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.jallcom.2005.12.071;
PII
S0925-8388(05)01996-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Journal Volume
424
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 41-45
ISSN
0925-8388
CODEN
JALCEU

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