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Effect of Partial Substitution of La by Ce on the Nature of Phase Transition in Magnetocaloric La1−x Ce x Fe11.2Co0.7Si1.1 Alloys

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The influence of Ce addition on the nature of phase transition in the La1−x Ce x Fe11.2Co0.7Si1.1 (x = 0, 0.1) alloy system has been investigated. The substitution of Ce for La leads to a decrease of Curie temperature from 264 K to 254 K and to an increase of the maximum value of magnetic entropy change from 19.3 J/(kg K) to 21.5 J/(kg K). A detailed analysis of phase transition using Arrott plots, the Landau theory for order parameter and the construction of a universal scaling curve revealed that replacing 10 at.% La with Ce drives the magnetic transition from second-order to first-order and enhances a field-induced itinerant electron metamagnetic transition above T C.

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This work was supported by the Projects APVV-15-0621, VEGA 2/0173/16 and ITMS 26220220061. P.G. acknowledges the support of the National Scholarship Program of the Slovak Republic.

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    P. Gębara, J. Marcin & I. Škorvánek

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Gębara, P., Marcin, J. & Škorvánek, I. Effect of Partial Substitution of La by Ce on the Nature of Phase Transition in Magnetocaloric La1−x Ce x Fe11.2Co0.7Si1.1 Alloys. J. Electron. Mater. 46, 6518–6522 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-017-5682-7

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