Cooling by adiabatic (DE)pressurization - the barocaloric effect

Abstract

The barocaloric effect reflects a new cooling principle at low temperatures without the need of liquefied gases nor magnetic fields as used in other cooling techniques. A pressure induced structural and/or magnetic phase transition is used to obtain a significant change in the system's entropy which leads to its cooling if done adiabatically. The effect is illustrated for the two rare earth compounds Pr₁ ? _xLa_xNio₃ and Ce_x(La,Y)₁ ? _xSb using a structural and a magnetic phase transition, respectively. In situ experiments on Ce_x(La,Y)₁?_xSb are presented and reveal a cooling rate of up to 2 K per 0·5 GPa pressure change at working temperatures below 20 K for x=1 and up to 0·42 K per 0·24 GPa for x=0·85 at around 10K.     

Analysis of a non-contact magnetoelastic torque transducer

Results are presented for the performance of a magnetoelastic torque transducer that converts a torque-induced strain in a non-magnetic shaft into changes in a measurable magnetic field. The magnetic field is generated by a thin magnetostrictive layer that is coated onto the circumference of the shaft. The layer is magnetized and has an initial residual strain. The magnetization within the layer rotates in response to changes in the strain which occur when the shaft is torqued. The magnetic field produced by the layer changes with the magnetization and this can be sensed by a magnetometer to monitor the torque on the shaft. In this paper, a phenomenological theory is developed for predicting the performance of the transducer. The theory can be used to predict the magnetic field distribution of the transducer as a function of the physical properties of the magnetic coating, its residual strain, and the applied torque. It enables rapid parametric analysis of transducer performance, which is useful for the development and optimization of novel non-contact torque sensors.     

Buckling and post-buckling of a ferromagnetic beam-plate induced by magnetoelastic interactions

Buckling and post-buckling behavior of a soft ferromagnetic beam-plate with unmovable simple supports under an applied magnetic field is analyzed by taking into account the non-linear effect of large deflections based on the von Karman model of plates. The study shows that buckling is proceeded by bending only if the applied magnetic field forms an incident angle with the normal of the plate. The characteristics of buckling and post-buckling are explored by numerical analysis. In particular, the numerical solution shows that, when the applied magnetic field is oblique, the plate snapps from a whole wave configuration into a half-wave configuration as buckling/snapping occurs, and that the magnetoelastic buckling strength increases with the increasing oblique angle.     

Magnetic properties of Fe-based glass-coated microwires

Axial hysteresis loops of glass-coated amorphous Fe₇₀B₁₅Si₁₀C₅ microwire have been measured as a function of both the diameter of metallic nucleus (from 3.7–14.9 μm) and the thickness of the coating (4.0–9.6 μm). They exhibit low-field rectangular hysteresis loops with a single and large Barkhausen jump even for samples as short as 5 mm long. Coercivity remarkably increases (roughly from 1 to 10 Oe) and remanence decreases (from 1 to 0.45 T), respectively, as the ratio of metallic nucleus radius to the total radius of the wire decreases from 0.63 to 0.16. The strength of the internal stresses induced during the fabrication depends on this ratio, and the easy axes of the corresponding magnetoelastic anisotropies determine the actual value of coercivity and remanence for these microwires.     

磁弹性无线传感器检测不同液体介质中的金黄色葡萄球菌

研制了磁弹性金黄色葡萄球菌无线传感器,用于检测不同液体介质中的金黄色葡萄球菌。取0.2mL一定浓度菌液加到含2mL无菌液体介质的检测玻璃管中,磁弹性传感器共振频率随细菌的生长而改变。通过改变牛肉膏和蛋白胨的浓度,得出传感器在含有2×105cells/mL金黄色葡萄球菌的培养基CM2-2中共振频率响应最大。结果表明,此传感器可以测定的金黄色葡萄球菌浓度范围在CM2-2中是3×103～2×107cells/mL,在牛奶中是1×104～2×107cells/mL,检出限分别是1×103cells/mL和1×104cells/mL。传感器共振频移大小与金黄色葡萄球菌的浓度呈线性相关关系,相关系数在牛奶中是0.98,在培养基中是0.99。     

Explosive instability of quasi-phonon triads in antiferromagnet under frequency modulated electromagnetic field

Compensation of nonlinear frequency shift of hybrid magnetoelastic waves (quasi-phonons) in the process of parametric three-boson coupling is studied theoretically and experimentally. The singular frequency modulation of electromagnetic pumping is proposed for the observation of explosive instability of quasi-phonon triads. The explosive supercritical dynamics is simulated theoretically on the basis of strong nonlinear equations of magnetoelastic dynamics and observed in α-Fe₂O₃ magnetoacoustic resonator.     

FMR and SMFMR investigation of epitaxial Fe/GaAs(0 0 1) thin films with Si and Ge overlayer

The magnetic anisotropy and magnetoelastic properties of epitaxial iron films prepared by DC magnetron sputtering on single crystal GaAs(0 0 1) substrate and covered with a protective Si or Ge layer have been investigated by means of the ferromagnetic resonance and strain-modulated ferromagnetic resonance. It has been shown that the uniaxial and cubic anisotropy constants as well as two magnetoelastic constants strongly depend on the thickness of the film. The surface components of the cubic anisotropy and magnetoelastic constants have been determined.     

Pressure induced anisotropic magnetovolume phenomena in Lu2Fe17 Intermetallics

Magnetisation and magnetic susceptibility of a Lu₂Fe₁₇ single crystal have been studied under hydrostatic pressure up to 1.2 GPa at temperatures down to 5 K using a SQUID magnetometer. The ferromagnetic phase of Lu₂Fe₁₇ is suppressed rapidly above a critical pressure P _C = 0.4 GPa in the whole temperature range below the critical temperature T _C . A magnetic phase diagram of Lu₂Fe₁₇ has been constructed using results of the magnetic susceptibility measurements under pressure. A pressure induced incommensurate antiferromagnetic phase exhibits metamagnetic transitions with the increasing critical magnetic field H _C under pressure. Taking into account recent neutron diffraction data, the pressure induced anisotropic changes of the lattice parameters of the Lu₂Fe₁₇ are discussed.