Abstract
Abstract The La(Fe, Si)13 compound shows a large magnetocaloric effect near room temperature. Partial substitution of Co for Fe can raise its Curie temperature and reduce the thermal hysteresis of its ferromagnetic transition. However, the influence of Co substitution on the crystal structure and magnetocaloric properties of La(Fe, Si)13 is not well understood yet. In this work, we report a comparative study of the crystal structure, magnetocaloric effects and elastic moduli of polycrystalline LaFe11.5 Si1.5 and LaCoFe10.5 Si1.5 samples using synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction, magnetic measurements and resonant ultrasound spectroscopy. Compared to the Co-free sample, the Co-doped sample shows a sluggish ferromagnetic transition and reduced volumetric expansion as well as softer elastic moduli at room temperature. The Co-doped sample also shows stronger temperature dependence of Fe-Fe distances in its ferromagnetic state. Such differences between the samples are explained by considering the influence of Co doping on ferromagnetic interactions and lattice entropy.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | TMS 2018 147th Annual Meeting and Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Pages | 181-190 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783319725253 |
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| State | Published - 2018 |
| Event | 147th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, TMS 2018 - Phoenix, United States Duration: Mar 11 2018 → Mar 15 2018 |
Publication series
| Name | Minerals, Metals and Materials Series |
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| Volume | Part F12 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2367-1181 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 2367-1696 |
Conference
| Conference | 147th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, TMS 2018 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Phoenix |
| Period | 03/11/18 → 03/15/18 |
Funding
Acknowledgements This work is financially supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB619405) and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50671024). David Mandrus and Jiaqiang Yan acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMR-1410428. The authors thank Michael Koehler for his help in the RUS measurements. Dan Huang and Ronghui Kou thank the China Scholarship Council for granting a CSC fellowship. This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
Keywords
- Crystal structure
- Elastic moduli
- La(FeSi)
- Magnetocaloric effect