Scaling of the entropy change at the magnetoelastic transition in Gd5(SixGe1-x)4

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 2124021-2124024

  Casanova, Félix ^a   Batlle, Xavier ^a   Labarta, Amílcar ^a   Marcos, Jordi ^a   Mañosa, Lluís ^a   Planes, Antoni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; GADOLINIUM; GERMANIUM DERIVATIVE; SILICON DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; PARAMETER; PHASE TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 37649026604     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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