The magnetocaloric effect and its most straightforward application, magnetic refrigeration,
are topics of current interest due to the potential improvement of energy efficiency of cooling …

Modern society relies on readily available refrigeration. Magnetic refrigeration has three
prominent advantages compared with compressor-based refrigeration. First, there are no …

The coupling between structural and magnetic degrees of freedom is crucial for realization
of interesting physical phenomena associated with magneto-structural transformations …

Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths: Including Actinides is a continuous
series of books covering all aspects of rare earth science, including chemistry, life sciences …

The expected energy transition to hydrogen gas as a greener energy vector has revived the
interest in magnetic refrigeration at the cryogenic range, specifically between 20 and 80 K …

Effects of temperature and pressure on magnetic, elastic, structural, and thermal properties
of T b 5 S i 2 G e 2 have been studied by means of macroscopic (thermal expansion and …

Signatures of short range anisotropic ferromagnetic correlations and ferromagnetic
clustering, manifested as unusually large hysteresis and other anomalies of the low …

Recent discoveries of novel materials exhibiting a magnetocaloric effect that is strongly
enhanced by the magnetoelastic coupling—the so-called giant magnetocaloric effect …

The giant magnetocaloric compound G d 5 G e 4 is the only member of the G d 5 (S ix G e 1-
x) 4 family where three-dimensional exchange interactions between two-dimensional …

A “giant magnetocaloric effect” discovered in 1997 for Gd5Si2Ge2 near room temperature
has triggered optimism that environmentally-friendly, solid-state magnetic refrigeration may …