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@INPROCEEDINGS{Friese:1005571,
author = {Friese, Karen and Schmalzl, Karin and Voigt, Jörg and
Biniskos, Nikolaos and Raymond, Stephane and Grzechnik,
Andrzej and Santos, Flaviano Jose dos and Brückel, Thomas},
title = {{E}lucidating the {M}echanism of the {M}agnetocaloric
{E}ffect in {C}ompounds of the {S}eries {M}n5-x{F}ex{S}i3},
reportid = {FZJ-2023-01533},
year = {2023},
abstract = {Domestic and industrial refrigeration applications
contribute a substantial part to mankind's energy
consumption. New technologies based on solid state caloric
effects promise considerable efficiency gains as compared to
today’s vapor compression technology. In caloric
materials, applied fields (e.g. magnetic, electric,
pressure, strain) lead to changes in entropy and in the
adiabatic temperature. The observed caloric effects form the
basis of the caloric refrigeration cycles. Within our
research we aim at a better understanding of the relation
between the structure and the dynamics of the materials to
guide a sustainable material design.We focused our research
on the magnetocaloric effect in the family of compounds
Mn5-xFexSi3. Within the series the magnetocaloric behavior
changes from an inverse MCE below 100 K for the end member
Mn5Si3 (x=0) to a moderately high direct MCE close to room
temperature for MnFe4Si3 (x=4) [1,2]. We performed
macroscopic magnetization measurements in static and pulsed
fields which provide a basis to quantify and explain
phenomenologically the MCE and to elucidate its anisotropy
[3,4]. Crystal structures were investigated using powder and
single crystal x-ray and neutron diffraction studies under
varying temperatures and pressures [5].Neutron diffraction
experiments were of particular importance here as - on one
hand - they allow to unambiguously characterize the
preferred ordering of Mn and Fe on the two symmetry
independent sites available for the paramagnetic ions and
thus help elucidating the site dependence of the
magnetocaloric effect [6]. On the other hand, they are
mandatory for the determination of the magnetic structures
in the system [2,6].The underlying spin dynamics of the
system was studied by a combination of inelastic neutron
scattering and density functional theory calculations [7,8].
The parent compound Mn5Si3 (x=0), undergoes two first order
phase transitions to a collinear AFM2 phase (60K<T<100K) and
a non-collinear AFM1 phase (T<60K) with the transition from
AFM1-AFM2 being related to an inverse MCE. The spin
excitation spectrum of the AFM1 phase consists only of
propagating spin waves, in contrast to the AFM2 phase where
propagative spin waves coexist with diffuse spin
fluctuations [9].For the ferromagnetic compound MnFe4Si3
(x=4), which exhibits a direct MCE, we observed a strong
anisotropy between in- and out-of-plane magnetic exchange
interactions in the magnon spectrum which is also reflected
in the q-dependent line-widths in the paramagnetic state.
The obtained correlation lengths of this system indicate a
short-range order and the in- and out-of-plane
spin-fluctuations around Tc are found to be isotropic
[10].Furthermore, we performed inelastic neutron scattering
investigations under external magnetic field on Mn5Si3 (x=0)
and MnFe4Si3 (x=4). We could show that the inverse MCE which
is observed in Mn5Si3 is related to field-induced spin
fluctuations [9], while on the contrary the direct MCE
observed in MnFe4Si3 is associated to the usual suppression
of fluctuations by magnetic field [10].[1] D. Songlin
et.al., J. Alloys Compd. 334, 249–252 (2002).[2] P.
Hering, et al.,Chem. Mater. 27, 7128 (2015)[3] N. Maraytta
et.al., J. Alloys Compd. 805, 1161–1167 (2019).[4] N.
Maraytta et. Al., J. Appl. Phys. 128, 103903 (2020).[5] A.
Eich et.al., Mater. Res. Express 6, 096118 (2019)[6] M. Ait
Haddouch et. al., J. Appl. Crystallogr. 55, 1164 (2022)[7]
F. J. dos Santos et. al., Phys. Rev. B 103, 024407
(2021).[8] N. Biniskos et. al., Phys. Rev. B 105 104404
(2022).[9] N. Biniskos et. al., Phys. Rev. Letters 120,
257205 (2018).[10] N. Biniskos et. al., Phys. Rev. B 96
104407 (2017).},
month = {Apr},
date = {2023-04-10},
organization = {Material Research Society Spring
Meeting $\&$ Exhibit 2023, San
Francisco (USA), 10 Apr 2023 - 14 Apr
2023},
subtyp = {Invited},
cin = {JCNS-FRM-II / IAS-1 / PGI-1 / JARA-FIT / JARA-HPC / JCNS-4
/ JCNS-ILL / JCNS-2 / MLZ},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-FRM-II-20110218 /
I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-1-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-1-20110106 /
$I:(DE-82)080009_20140620$ / $I:(DE-82)080012_20140620$ /
I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-4-20201012 / I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-ILL-20110128
/ I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-2-20110106 / I:(DE-588b)4597118-3},
pnm = {6G4 - Jülich Centre for Neutron Research (JCNS) (FZJ)
(POF4-6G4) / 632 - Materials – Quantum, Complex and
Functional Materials (POF4-632) / 5211 - Topological Matter
(POF4-521)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-6G4 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-632 /
G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5211},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-Juel1)ILL-IN12-20150421},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1005571},
}