Importance of local structural distortions in magnetocaloric effect in Mn based antiperovskites
16th International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS), Karlsruhe, Almanya, 23 - 28 Ağustos 2015, cilt.712, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
- Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
- Cilt numarası: 712
- Doi Numarası: 10.1088/1742-6596/712/1/012117
- Basıldığı Şehir: Karlsruhe
- Basıldığı Ülke: Almanya
- Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Mn3GaC and Mn3SnC are two antiperovskites which exhibit a large magnetocaloric effect associated with a magnetostructural transformation. Although structurally similar, the magnetic transition and the nature of magnetocaloric effect in the two compounds is completely different. While Mn3GaC transforms from a ferromagnetic to an antiferromagnetic state at T-t = 178K with the antiferromagnetic propagation vector along k - 1/2, 1/2, 1/2, in Mn3SnC the transformation occurs at Tt = 280K from a paramagnetic state to an antiferromagnetic state with k - 1/2, 1/2, 0. Mn K EXAFS has been employed to show that these differences in magnetic properties are related to local structural distortions in Mn6C octahedra which are quite different in the two compounds.