AIP Advances (May 2016)

The effects of substituting Ag for In on the magnetoresistance and magnetocaloric properties of Ni-Mn-In Heusler alloys

  • Sudip Pandey,
  • Abdiel Quetz,
  • Anil Aryal,
  • Igor Dubenko,
  • Tapas Samanta,
  • Dipanjan Mazumdar,
  • Shane Stadler,
  • Naushad Ali

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943763
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 5
pp. 056213 – 056213-7

Abstract

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The effect of substituting Ag for In on the structural, magnetocaloric, and thermomagnetic properties of Ni50Mn35In15−xAgx (x = 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, and 1) Heusler alloys was studied. The magnitude of the magnetization change at the martensitic transition temperature (TM) decreased with increasing Ag concentration. Smaller magnetic entropy changes (ΔSM) were observed for the alloys with larger Ag concentrations and the martensitic transition shifted to higher temperature. A shift of TM by about 25 K to higher temperature was observed for an applied hydrostatic pressure of P = 6.6 kbar with respect to ambient pressure. A large drop in resistivity was observed for large Ag concentration. The magnetoresistance was dramatically suppressed due to an increase in the disorder of the system with increasing Ag concentration. Possible mechanisms responsible for the observed behavior are discussed.