Room-temperature magnetic refrigerator using permanent magnets

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 538-544

  Bohigas, X ^a,b   Molins, E ^a   Roig, A ^a   Tejada, J ^a   Zhang, X X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Magnetic refrigerator; Magnetocaloric effect

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DEMAGNETIZATION; GADOLINIUM; HEATING; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIZATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; REFRIGERATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ADIABATIC PROCESS; MAGNETIC REFRIGERATION; MAGNETOCALONE EFFECT;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0033684354     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.846216     Document Type: Article

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