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Large magnetic entropy change and prediction of magnetoresistance using a magnetic field in La0.5Sm0.1Sr0.4Mn0.975In0.025O3

Abstract

A detailed study of the structural, magnetic, magnetocaloric and electrical effect properties in polycrystalline manganite La0.5Sm0.1Sr0.4Mn0.975In0.025O3 is presented. The X-ray diffraction pattern is consistent with a rhombohedral structure with R[3 with combining macron]c space group. Experimental results revealed that our compound prepared via a sol–gel method exhibits a continuous (second-order) ferromagnetic (FM) to paramagnetic (PM) phase transition around the Curie temperature (TC = 300 K). In addition, the magnetic entropy change was found to reach 5.25 J kg−1 K−1 under an applied magnetic field of 5 T, corresponding to a relative cooling power (RCP) of 236 J kg−1. We have fitted the experimental data of resistivity using a typical numerical method (Gauss function). The simulation values such as maximum resistivity (ρmax) and metal–semiconductor transition temperature (TM–Sc), calculated from this function, showed a perfect agreement with the experimental data. The shifts of these parameters as a function of magnetic field for our sample have been interpreted. The obtained values of β and γ, determined by analyzing the Arrott plots, are found to be TC = 298.66 ± 0.64 K, β = 0.325 ± 0.001 and γ = 1.25 ± 0.01. The critical isotherm M (TC, μ0H) gives δ = 4.81 ± 0.01. These critical exponent values are found to be consistent and comparable to those predicted by the three-dimensional Ising model with short-range interaction. Thus, the Widom scaling law Image ID:c7ra12905j-t1.gif is fulfilled.

Graphical abstract: Large magnetic entropy change and prediction of magnetoresistance using a magnetic field in La0.5Sm0.1Sr0.4Mn0.975In0.025O3

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 Nov 2017
Accepted
24 Jan 2018
First published
31 Jan 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2018,8, 5395-5406

Large magnetic entropy change and prediction of magnetoresistance using a magnetic field in La0.5Sm0.1Sr0.4Mn0.975In0.025O3

M. Dhahri, J. Dhahri and E. K. Hlil, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 5395 DOI: 10.1039/C7RA12905J

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