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1Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in an orbital-spin-coupled spinel vanadate MnV(2)O(4) is investigated by magnetization measurement. MnV(2)O(4) has ferrimagnetic ordering occurring at T(C) = 57 K. The maximum magnetic entropy change reaches 14.8 and 24.0 J kg(-1) K(-1) for field changes of 0-2 and 0-4 T, respectively. The maximum adiabatic temperature is about 2.9 K for a magnetic field change of 2 T. Except for the spin entropy change, the observed giant MCE is suggested to be related to the orbital entropy change due to the change of the orbital state of V(3+) induced by an applied magnetic field around T(C).
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