Estudo de materiais magnéticos através de técnicas fototérmicas : efeito magnetocalórico e filmes finos / Study of magnetic materials using photothermal techniques : magnetocaloric effect and thin films

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2010

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The magnetocaloric effect (MCE) has been widely studied because of its possible application in magnetic refrigeration. The search for suitable materials has intensified over the last decade, with a demand not only for the preparation of new materials but also for their complete characterization. The aim of this work is to apply the photothermal techniques to the characterization of materials with magnetocaloric effects. First, we will discuss the Magnetoacoustic technique. This is an adaptation of the Photoacoustic techinique, and it has proved to be promising in the magnetocaloric field due to its high sensitivity. Moreover, this technique is not limited by the validity of the theories involved in traditional methods. Recently, the acoustic detection of MCE was explored in another work of this research group and a simple model for determining the adiabatic temperature variation (? Tad) was proposed. Here, we used a different approach to determine the isothermal entropy change ( ? ST ) the ? ST is the novelty of this work. The analyzed materials were gadolinium, which shows a second order magnetic phase transition, and a Gd5 (Ge1-x Six) 4 family compound, which has a first order magnetic-crystallographic phase transition. The positive results showed an alternative way to characterize the MCE, proving to have advantages over traditional methods in many cases. In parallel, the photothermally modulated ferromagnetic resonance technique (PMFMR) was used in the study of thin films of gadolinium. Currently, there is a growing interest in thin films, and this has encouraged researches to use different characteriza tion techniques. Using PM-FMR, we observed the magnetic phase transitions for the films with different thicknesses and thermal treatments, deposited on quartz and silicon substrates. Our findings were compared with traditional results of ferromagnetic resonance and magnetization. Although the overall results are known, the main interest is in the evolution of the technique. The spatial resolution in the micrometer scale allows for magnetic images, which are not possible using traditional methods

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efeito magnetocalórico técnicas fototérmicas ligas de gadolínio magnetocaloric efect photothermal techniques gadolinium alloys

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