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Large magnetic refrigerant capacity of HoFe1−xCoxAl (x = 0, 0.3) compounds

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Magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of HoFe1−xCoxAl (x = 0, 0.3) were investigated. Both HoFeAl and HoFe0.7Co0.3Al undergo a second-order ferromagnetic (FIM) to paramagnetic (PM) transition at Curie temperatures (T C) of 87 and 82 K, respectively. The magnetocaloric effect is improved by the introduction of Co in HoFeAl compound. For a field change from 0 to 5 T, the maximum values of magnetic entropy change (−ΔS M) are 7.0 J·kg−1·K−1 for HoFeAl and 8.6 J·kg−1·K−1 for HoFe0.7Co0.3Al. In addition, the refrigerant capacity (RC) is enhanced largely from 416.2 J·kg−1 for HoFeAl to 561.9 J·kg−1 for HoFe0.7Co0.3Al. This large RC is attributed to the large ΔS M and the wide temperature span of ΔS M peak in HoFe0.7Co0.3Al compound. The physical mechanism of improvement in magnetocaloric effect by Co substitution in HoFeAl was also discussed in detail.

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This work was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds from National Institute of Metrology (Nos. 35-ALC1514-15 and 35-AHY1323-13) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51402031).

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  2. School of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing, 401331, China

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Xu, ZY., Zhang, ZG., Gao, RL. et al. Large magnetic refrigerant capacity of HoFe1−xCoxAl (x = 0, 0.3) compounds. Rare Met. 40, 1–5 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-016-0829-x

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