Carbon-doping effects on the metamagnetic transition and magnetocaloric effect in MnAsCx

  • W. B. Cui
  • , W. Liu
  • , Q. Zhang
  • , B. Li
  • , X. H. Liu
  • , F. Yang
  • , X. G. Zhao
  • , Z. D. Zhang

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Abstract

Carbon doping effects in MnAs alloys have been investigated. More carbon doping in MnAs alloys leads to lower Curie temperature, larger thermal hysteresis and sharper slope of the dependence of critical field on reduced temperature due to severe lattice distortion. The obtained maximum of magnetic entropy change for a field change of 5 T is about 12.8 J kg-1 K-1 near room temperature, and increases with more doping carbon content to about 22.4 J kg-1 K-1 in MnAsC0.03 and 13.2 J kg-1K-1 in MnAsC0.05.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2223-2226
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Volume322
Issue number15
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2010
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This work has been supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Projects 50831006 and 50971123 and National Basic Research Program (No. 2010CB934603 ) of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China .

Keywords

  • Carbon-doping effect
  • Magneto-caloric effect
  • Metamagnetic phase transition

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