Modern society is faced with an important challenge–how to ensure enough energy and
resources for industrial and population growth and preserve the environment at the same …

Solid-state magnetic cooling near room temperature has recently gained a prominent
position among alternative cooling technologies that are deemed to have higher energy …

Over the last two decades, the research activities on magnetocalorics have been
exponentially increased, leading to the discovery of a wide category of materials including …

Magnetocaloric materials with a Curie temperature near room temperature have attracted
significant interest for some time due to their possible application for high‐efficiency …

Tape casting has been used to produce thin layers of ceramics that can be used as single
layers or can be stacked and laminated into multilayered structures. Today, tape casting is …

Magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of HoMn 2 O 5 single crystals were investigated.
HoMn 2 O 5 undergoes a large conventional magnetocaloric effect around 10 K. The …

Perovskite oxides show an amazing diversity of electronic and magnetic properties along
with a myriad of structural variants and phase transitions. Large thermal changes may be …

This chapter attempts to systematically outline some fundamentals and key experimental
results concerning magnetic properties of perovskite manganites, focusing on (i) …

The manufacturing process and mechanical instability of high performance magnetocaloric
materials hamper the implementation of novel geometries for active magnetic regenerators …

A novel rotary magnetic refrigeration device has been designed and constructed following
the concepts recently outlined in Bahl et al.(2011). The magnet and flow system design …