Free-Spin Dominated Magnetocaloric Effect in Dense Gd3+ Double Perovskites.
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Publication Date
2022-04-12Journal Title
Chem Mater
ISSN
0897-4756
Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Volume
34
Issue
7
Pages
3440-3450
Language
eng
Type
Article
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Koskelo, E. C., Liu, C., Mukherjee, P., Kelly, N., & Dutton, S. (2022). Free-Spin Dominated Magnetocaloric Effect in Dense Gd3+ Double Perovskites.. Chem Mater, 34 (7), 3440-3450. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00261
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Funder: Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States
Funder: University of Cambridge
Abstract
Frustrated lanthanide oxides with dense magnetic lattices are of fundamental interest for their potential in cryogenic refrigeration due to a large ground state entropy and suppressed ordering temperatures but can often be limited by short-range correlations. Here, we present examples of frustrated fcc oxides, Ba2GdSbO6 and Sr2GdSbO6, and the new site-disordered analogue Ca2GdSbO6 ([CaGd] A [CaSb] B O6), in which the magnetocaloric effect is influenced by minimal superexchange (J 1 ∼ 10 mK). We report on the crystal structures using powder X-ray diffraction and the bulk magnetic properties through low-field susceptibility and isothermal magnetization measurements. The Gd compounds exhibit a magnetic entropy change of up to -15.8 J/K/molGd in a field of 7 T at 2 K, a 20% excess compared to the value of -13.0 J/K/molGd for a standard in magnetic refrigeration, Gd3Ga5O12. Heat capacity measurements indicate a lack of magnetic ordering down to 0.4 K for Ba2GdSbO6 and Sr2GdSbO6, suggesting cooling down through the liquid 4-He regime. A mean-field model is used to elucidate the role of primarily free-spin behavior in the magnetocaloric performance of these compounds in comparison to other top-performing Gd-based oxides. The chemical flexibility of the double perovskites raises the possibility of further enhancement of the magnetocaloric effect in the Gd3+ fcc lattices.
Sponsorship
Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability
Churchill Scholarship from the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States
Diamond Light Source
Funder references
EPSRC (EP/T028580/1)
EPSRC (2124516)
Identifiers
35572784, PMC9098179
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00261
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/338187
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