O efeito magnetocalórico nas ligas Heusler Ni54[Mn(1-x)Fex]19Ga27

• Autor(a) principal: Sardinha, Farley Correia
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6285
• topic: Magnetic refrigeration; Magnetocaloric effect; Heusler alloys; Refrigeração magnética; Efeito magnetocalórico; Ligas Heusler; Física; Materiais magnéticos; Refrigeração; 53

In this work, magnetic entropy change of nonstoichiometric Ni54[Mn(1-x)Fex]19Ga27 Heusler alloys was experimentally verified by partial substitution (up to 50%) of the Mn atoms by magnetic Fe atoms. Such study was mainly concentrated in the magneto-structural transformation region, at low temperatures. The analysis of X-ray diffraction patterns indicate that the partial substitution of Mn atoms by Fe atoms causes predominance of the L21 -phase, however accompanied by spurious phases. The magnetization measurements as a function of the temperature in the low magnetic field reveals that, in all concentration range (0 x 0.5), the system presents a magnetic transition (Ferromagnetic Paramagnetic) at a temperature, TC, near the room temperature, when the material lay in the austenitic phase. Moreover, as many others Heusler alloys, the material undergoes a martensitic structural transition at low temperatures, TM. As the Fe concentration increases, the Curie temperature, TC, undergoes a little variation, increasing around 5%, while TM decreases slowly and monotonically. The magnetic entropy change, for a field of 5T, presents a maximum SM = - 9,3 J/kg.K, for x = 0.1, at a temperature of 250K, and than decreases for x 0.3, changing linearly with the maximum applied field.