Investigation on magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of Sr0.25Ca0.75Mn0.9Ti0.1O3 perovskite

Interest in magnetic refrigeration, which is based on the magnetocaloric effect (MCE), has greatly increased during the past two decades. As a less-polluting and more effective cooling technology than gas compression, magnetic refrigeration is one of the prominent and possible options. Perovskite Oxides played a major contribution for the development of magnetic refrigeration (MR). Sr0.25Ca0.75Mn1-xTixO3 (x = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7 and 0.8) polycrystalline samples were synthesized by conventional solid-state reaction. Its cubic perovskite-type crystal structure is discovered to be of the Pm-3m space group. At T = 31.3 K, the alloy experiences antiferromagnetic transition for the composition of Sr0.25Ca0.75Mn0.9Ti0.1O3. It demonstrates that the greatest magnetocaloric reports are 8 J/kg K for a magnetic field of 7 Tesla and 3.2 J/kg K for 1 Tesla. These (Delta S-M) value is comparable to the magnetization values of the ferromagnetic Heusler alloys and are very high in these kinds of antiferromagnetic perovskite systems. For the Sr0.25Ca0.75Mn0.9Ti0.1O3 material, this is the first report of substantial magnetic entropy changes brought on by a weak magnetic field.