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Magnetic Properties and Magnetocaloric Effect in Tb2FeCrO6 Double Perovskite Oxide

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In this work, we fabricated a polycrystalline Tb2FeCrO6 double perovskite (DP) oxide by a solid-state reaction method and determined its structural, magnetic, and magnetocaloric (MC) properties. The Tb2FeCrO6 DP oxide was found to crystallize in a DP-type structure with the Pbnm space group and to undergo a paramagnetic-to-antiferromagnetic transition at a temperature of ~ 8.5 K. A large low-temperature MC effect was observed in the Tb2FeCrO6 DP oxide. The MC parameters in terms of maximum magnetic entropy changes, temperature-averaged entropy change (5 K), and relative cooling power for Tb2FeCrO6 DP oxide under a magnetic field change of 0–7 T were 12.9 J/kg K, 12.7 J/kg K, and 341.4 J/kg, respectively. These parameters were consistent with similarly high levels in recently updated MC materials, making the material a suitable candidate for low-temperature magnetic cooling applications.

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Huang, S., Lin, J., Shu, Y. et al. Magnetic Properties and Magnetocaloric Effect in Tb2FeCrO6 Double Perovskite Oxide. J. Electron. Mater. 53, 2302–2308 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-024-10993-2

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