American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 17(89), p. 172513
DOI: 10.1063/1.2372584
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The authors have studied the effects of pressure on the magnetocaloric effect in a polycrystalline La Fe 11.6 Si 1.4 sample. The Curie temperature TC of the sample rapidly decreases from 191 K at ambient pressure to 80 K under 8.3 kbar pressure. The metamagnetic transition induced by field at temperatures above TC becomes extremely sharp under high pressure and the critical field Hc of the transition increases fast with increasing temperature. As a result, the giant magnetocaloric effect in La Fe 11.6 Si 1.4 is greatly enhanced by pressure, especially at low magnetic fields. For a field variation of 1 T only, the maximum value of the entropy change is as high as 34 J / kg K .