Giant and reversible extrinsic magnetocaloric effects in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 films due to strain

Moya, X., Hueso, L.E., Maccherozzi, F., Tovstolytkin, A.I., Podyalovskii, D.I., Ducati, C., Phillips, L.C., Ghidini, M., Hovorka, O., Berger, A., Vickers, M.E., Defay, E., Dhesi, S.S. and Mathur, N.D. (2012) Giant and reversible extrinsic magnetocaloric effects in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 films due to strain. Nature Materials, 12 (1), 52-58. (doi:10.1038/nmat3463).

Abstract

Large thermal changes driven by a magnetic field have been proposed for environmentally friendly energy-efficient refrigeration, but only a few materials that suffer hysteresis show these giant magnetocaloric effects. Here we create giant and reversible extrinsic magnetocaloric effects in epitaxial films of the ferromagnetic manganite La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 using strain-mediated feedback from BaTiO3 substrates near a first-order structural phase transition. Our findings should inspire the discovery of giant magnetocaloric effects in a wide range of magnetic materials, and the parallel development of nanostructured bulk samples for practical applications.

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Author: O. Hovorka

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