NameFranco García, Victorino
DepartmentFísica de la Materia Condensada
Knowledge areaFísica de la Materia Condensada
Professional categoryCatedrático de Universidad
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Polymer-based filaments with embedded magnetocaloric Ni-Mn-Ga Heusler alloy particles for additive manufacturing

Díaz García, Álvaro; Law, Jia Yan; Zrodowski, Łukasz; Moronczyk, Bartosz; Wróblewski, Rafał; Franco García, Victorino (Wiley, 2024)
One important issue associated to magnetocaloric materials that hinders its technological application is the poor ...
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Sustainable Nanomagnetism: Investigating the Influence of Green Synthesis and pH on Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Enhanced Biomedical Applications

Abdullah, Johar Amin Ahmed; Díaz García, Álvaro; Law, Jia Yan; Romero García, Alberto; Franco García, Victorino; Guerrero Conejo, Antonio Francisco (MDPI, 2023)
This study comprehensively analyzed green nanomagnetic iron oxide particles (GNMIOPs) synthesized using a green method, ...
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Quantifying the structure and properties of nanomagnetic iron oxide particles for enhanced functionality through chemical synthesis

Abdullah, Johar Amin Ahmed; Díaz García, Álvaro; Law, Jia Yan; Romero García, Alberto; Franco García, Victorino; Guerrero Conejo, Antonio Francisco (MDPI, 2023)
This comprehensive study investigates the properties of chemical nanomagnetic iron oxide particles (CNMIOPs) synthesized ...
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Caracterización de Materiales Magnéticos Blandos para Aplicaciones Energéticas

Rivera Sierra, Gonzalo; Franco García, Victorino; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel (2023)
Los materiales magnéticos blandos tienen una gran importancia en el ámbito energético y, por consiguiente, en el campo de ...
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Using a computationally driven screening to enhance magnetocaloric effect of metal monoborides

Romero-Muñiz, Carlos; Law, Jia Yan; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Díaz García, Álvaro; Franco García, Victorino (IOP Publishing, 2023)
In most cases, substitution studies that aim to optimize magnetic properties are performed at the magnetic atomic site. ...
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Ultra-low Hysteresis in Giant Magnetocaloric Mn1-xVxFe0.95(P,Si,B) Compounds

Lai, Jiawei; You, Xinmin; Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino; Huang, Bowei; Bessas, Dimitrios; Maschek, Michael; Zeng, Dechang; van Dijk, Niels; Brück, Ekkes (Elsevier, 2023)
Large thermal hysteresis in the (Mn,Fe)2(P,Si) system hinders an efficient heat exchange and thus limits the magnetocaloric ...
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Excellent Cryogenic Magnetocaloric Properties in Heavy Rare-earth Based HRENiGa2 (HRE = Dy, Ho, or Er) Compounds

Guo, Dan; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Law, Jia Yan; Zhang, Yikun; Franco García, Victorino (Science Press, 2023)
RENiX2 compounds, where RE = rare-earth element and X = p-block element, have been highly regarded for cryogenic magnetocaloric ...
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Tunable Magnetocaloric Effect Towards Cryogenic Range by Varying Mn:Ni Ratio in All-d-metal Ni(Co)-Mn-Ti Heusler Alloys

Khan, Aun N.; Díaz García, Álvaro; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino (Elsevier, 2023)
Cryogenic magnetic refrigeration is a highly efficient and environmentally friendly technique for gas liquefaction. However, ...
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All-d-metal Ni(Co)-Mn(X)-Ti (X = Fe or Cr) Heusler Alloys: Enhanced Magnetocaloric Effect for Moderate Magnetic Fields

Khan, Aun N.; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Díaz García, Álvaro; Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino (Elsevier, 2023)
All-d-metal Ni(Co)-Mn-Ti Heusler alloys show high magnetocaloric/barocaloric effects ascribed to the occurrence of a ...
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First-order Phase Transition in High-performance La(Fe,Mn,Si)13H Despite Negligible Hysteresis

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Law, Jia Yan; Borrego Moro, Josefa María; Barcza, Alexander; Greneche, Jean Marc; Franco García, Victorino (Elsevier, 2023)
Optimizing the performance of magnetocaloric materials is facilitated by understanding the thermomagnetic transitions they ...
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Current Perspective in Magnetocaloric Materials Research

Law, Jia Yan; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Díaz García, Álvaro; Franco García, Victorino (American Institute of Physics, 2023)
Magnetocaloric refrigeration has remained a promising alternative to conventional refrigeration for the last few decades. ...
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Magnetocaloric Materials for Hydrogen Liquefaction

Romero-Muñiz, Carlos; Law, Jia Yan; Revuelta Losada, Jorge; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Franco García, Victorino (Innovation Press, 2023)
The expected energy transition to hydrogen gas as a greener energy vector has revived the interest in magnetic refrigeration ...
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Additive manufacturing of magnetocaloric (La,Ce)(Fe,Mn,Si)13–H particles via polymer-based composite filaments

Díaz García, Álvaro; Revuelta Losada, Jorge; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Law, Jia Yan; Mayer, C.; Franco García, Victorino (Elsevier, 2022)
Additive manufacturing could be an excellent way of shaping magnetocaloric heat exchangers in magnetic refrigerators. ...
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Métodos para la caracterización de materiales magnetocalóricos multifásicos

Díaz García, Álvaro; Franco García, Victorino; Law, Jia Yan (2022)
This thesis is aimed to study the characteristics of thermomagnetic phase transitions and the resulting magnetocaloric ...
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Functional, thermal and rheological properties of polymer-based magnetic composite filaments for additive manufacturing

Díaz García, Álvaro; Law, Jia Yan; Félix Ángel, Manuel; Guerrero Conejo, Antonio Francisco; Franco García, Victorino (Elsevier, 2022)
The design of functional composite filaments for fused filament fabrication requires a suitable polymer composition, ...
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Effect of mixing the low-valence transition metal atoms Y = Co, Fe, Mn, Cr, V, Ti, or Sc on the properties of quaternary Heusler compounds Co2-xYx FeSi (0≤x≤1)

Mahat, R.; Karki, U.; Kc, Shambhu; Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino; Galanakis, I.; Gupta, A.; Leclair, P. (American Physical Society, 2022)
In this paper we report an experimental study of structural, magnetic, and mechanical properties of quaternary Heusler ...
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Effect of Microstructure on Magnetocaloric properties of High Entropy Alloys

Yin, Hangboce; Franco García, Victorino; Law, Jia Yan; Huang, Yong Jiang (2022)
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Enhanced magnetocaloric properties of annealed melt-extracted Mn1.3Fe0.6P0.5Si0.5 microwires

Luo, Lin; Law, Jia Yan; Shen, Hongxian; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Franco García, Victorino; Guo, Shu; Phan, Manh-Huong (MDPI, 2022)
: The highly regarded Fe2P-based magnetocaloric materials are usually fabricated by ball milling, and require an additional ...
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Possible half-metallic behavior of Co2-xCrxFeGe Heusler alloys: theory and experiment

Mahat, R.; Kc, Shambhu; Karki, U.; Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino; Galanakis, I.; Gupta, A.; Leclair, P. (American Physical Society, 2021)
This paper reports a combined experimental and theoretical study of structural, electronic, magnetic, and mechanical ...
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Tratamiento térmico de aleaciones asistido por corriente

Delgado Álvarez, Juan; Franco García, Victorino; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel (2021)
Cada día cobra más importancia el uso de softwares de simulación multifísica en diversos campos científicos como, por ...
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Combined kinetic and Bean–Rodbell approach for describing field-induced transitions in LaFe11.6Si1.4 alloys

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Radulov, I. A.; Skokov, K. P.; Gutfleisch, Oliver; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2021)
We propose a combination of the Kolmogorov–Johnson–Mehl–Avrami nucleation and growth theory and the Bean–Rodbell model to ...
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Pushing the limits of magnetocaloric high-entropy alloys

Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino (American Institute of Physics, 2021)
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have become a topic of high research interest due to the excellent mechanical properties that ...
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Reversibility of the Magnetocaloric Effect in the Bean-Rodbell Model

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Franco García, Victorino (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2021)
The applicability of magnetocaloric materials is limited by irreversibility. In this work, we evaluate the reversible ...
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Design of Fe-containing GdTbCoAl high-entropy-metallic-glass composite microwires with tunable Curie temperatures and enhanced cooling efficiency

Yin, Hangboce; Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino; Shen, Hongxian; Jiang, Sida; Bao, Ying; Sun, Jianfei (Elsevier, 2021)
Through designing the composition and processing approach, the non-equiatomic (Gd36Tb20Co20Al24)100-xFex (x = 0, 1, 2 and ...
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First- and second-order phase transitions in RE6Co2Ga (RE = Ho, Dy or Gd) cryogenic magnetocaloric materials

Guo, Dan; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Romero-Muñiz, Carlos; Zhang, Yikun; Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino; Wang, Jiang; Ren, Zhongming (Science in China Press, 2021)
Rare-earth (RE) rich intermetallics crystallizing in orthorhombic Ho6Co2Ga-type crystal structure exhibit peculiar magnetic ...
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Analysis of the magnetic field dependence of the isothermal entropy change of inverse magnetocaloric materials

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Law, Jia Yan; Pramana, Stevin Snellius; Giri, Anit K.; Franco García, Victorino (Elsevier, 2021)
In this work, the magnetic field dependence of the inverse magnetocaloric (MC) effect is analyzed using a mean field ...
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Increased magnetocaloric response of FeMnNiGeSi high-entropy alloys

Law, Jia Yan; Díaz García, Álvaro; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Franco García, Victorino (Elsevier, 2021)
The search for high-entropy alloys (HEAs), a new class of materials, with high magnetocaloric perfor- mance can address ...
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Setting the basis for the interpretation of temperature first order reversal curve (TFORC) distributions of magnetocaloric materials

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Franco García, Victorino (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020)
First Order Reversal Curve (FORC) distributions of magnetic materials are a well-known tool to extract information about ...
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Novel Procedure for Laboratory Scale Production of Composite Functional Filaments for Additive Manufacturing

Díaz García, Álvaro; Law, Jia Yan; Cota Reguero, Agustín; Bellido-Correa, A.; Ramírez Rico, Joaquín; Schäfer, R.; Franco García, Victorino (Elsevier, 2020)
Successful 3D printing by material extrusion of functional parts for new devices requires high quality filaments. Uniform ...
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Ferrofluidos para Aplicaciones Térmicas

Castillo Pareja, Jesús; Franco García, Victorino; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel (2020)
Resumen En este trabajo se presentan un conjunto de simulaciones de elementos finitos con el objetivo de modelar la respuesta ...
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Temperature-FORC Analysis of a Magnetocaloric Heusler Alloy Using a Unified Driving Force Approach (T*FORC)

Franco García, Victorino (American Institute of Physics, 2020)
Temperature-first order reversal curve (FORC) distributions of thermomagnetic phase transitions are a fingerprinting tool ...
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Influence of Thermal and Magnetic History on Direct DTad Measurements of Ni49+xMn36-xIn15 Heusler Alloys

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Delgado-Matarín, Antonio; Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Giri, Anit K. (MDPI, 2019)
In the present work, using Heusler Ni49+xMn36-xIn15 (with x = 0 and 0.5) alloys, it is shown that the choice of the ...
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Correlations between Elastic, Calorimetric, and Polar Properties of Ferroelectric PbSc0.5Ta0.5O3 (PST)

Linyu, Gan; Romero Landa, Francisco Javier; Franco García, Victorino; Martín Olalla, José María; Gallardo Cruz, María del Carmen; Salje, Ekhard K.H.; Zhou, Yumei; Aktas, Oktay (AIP, 2019)
Calorimetric, elastic, and polar properties of ferrolectric lead scandium tantalate PbSc0.5Ta0.5O3 (PST) with 65% cation order ...
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Methods for the analysis of thermomagnetic phase transitions of magnetocaloric materials

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Franco García, Victorino (2019)
This thesis focuses on the analysis of the relation between thermomagnetic phase transitions and magnetocaloric response ...
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Modification of the order of the magnetic phase transition in cobaltites without changing their crystal space group

Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Skinner, S. J.; Pramana, S. S. (Elsevier, 2019)
It has been found that GdBa1-xSrxCo2O6-δ can exhibit consecutive magnetic transitions: antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic ...
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A procedure to obtain the parameters of Curie temperature distribution from thermomagnetic and magnetocaloric data

Manchón Gordón, Alejandro F.; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2019)
We propose a procedure for the determination of the parameters of the Curie temperature distribution (TCD)in a compositionally ...
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FORC study of the ferromagnetic impurities in Na and K feldspars of El Realejo mine

Montiel-Anaya, Jose Antonio; Franco García, Victorino (American Institute of Physics Inc., 2019)
Feldspar is a Na-K-Ca-Al tectosilicate, generally poor in iron or other elements with large magnetic moments. Being the ...
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Magnetocaloric effect: From materials research to refrigeration devices

Franco García, Victorino; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Law, Jia Yan; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2018)
The magnetocaloric effect and its most straightforward application, magnetic refrigeration, are topics of current interest ...
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A quantitative criterion for determining the order of magnetic phase transitions using the magnetocaloric effect

Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Karpenkov, Dmitriy Y.; Radulov, Iliya; Skokov, Konstantin P.; Gutfleisch, Oliver (Nature Publishing Group, 2018)
The ideal magnetocaloric material would lay at the borderline of a first-order and a second-order phase transition. Hence, ...
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Correction of the Shape Effect on Magnetic Entropy Change in Ball Milled Fe70Zr30 Alloys

Manchón Gordón, Alejandro F.; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2018)
The field dependence of the magnetic entropy change (ΔSM) after mechanical alloying of Fe70Zr30 composition starting from ...
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Influence of the starting temperature of calorimetric measurements on the accuracy of determined magnetocaloric effect

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Neves Bez, H.; Mudryk, Y.; Pecharsky, V. K. (Elsevier, 2018)
Availability of a restricted heat capacity data range has a clear influence on the accuracy of calculated magnetocaloric ...
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The role of Ni in modifying the order of the phase transition of La(Fe,Ni,Si)(13)

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Romero-Muñiz, Carlos; Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Radulov, Iliya A.; Gutfleisch, Oliver (Elsevier, 2018)
In this work, we study the effect of Ni substitution on the magnetocaloric properties of La(Fe,Si)13 compounds. Sample ...
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Grinding and particle size selection as a procedure to enhance the magnetocaloric response of La( Fe, Si)(13) bulk samples

Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Borrego Moro, Josefa María; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2017)
The magnetocaloric effect of La(Fe,Si)13 samples deteriorates with the presence of secondary phases. However, it is highly ...
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Tunable magnetocaloric effect around room temperature by Fe doping in Mn0.98Cr(0.02-x)FexAs compound

Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Ribeiro, Paula O.; Ranke, Pedro Jorge von; Caraballo Vivas, R. J.; Gomes Carvalho, Alexandre Magnus; Coelho, Adelino Aguiar; Franco García, Victorino; Rocco, Daniel Leandro (Elsevier, 2017)
In this work, we present an investigation of the magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of Mn0.98Cr(0.02-x)FexAs compounds ...
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Controlling of magnetocaloric effect in Gd2O3@SiO2 nanocomposites by substrate dimensionality and particles’ concentration

Zelenáková, Adriana; Hubrovkák, Pavol; Kapusta, Ondrej; Berkutova, Anna; Zelenák, Vladimir; Franco García, Victorino (AIP Publishing, 2017)
The magnetocaloric effect (MCE) of hybrid nanostructures consisting of fine gadolinium oxide (Gd2O3) nanoparticles with ...
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Scaling Analysis of the Magnetocaloric Effect in Co/Au Nanoparticles

Hrubovcák, P.; Zelenáková, Adriana; Zelenák, V.; Franco García, Victorino (Panstwowego Wydawnictwa Naukowego, 2017)
The system of superparamagnetic Co/Au bimetallic nanoparticles of average diameter 7 nm was investigated with respect to ...
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Nanostructuring as a procedure to control the field dependence of the magnetocaloric effect

Doblas, David; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Svalov, A.V.; Kurlyandskaya, G.V.; Franco García, Victorino (Elsevier, 2017)
In this work, the field dependence of the magnetocaloric effect of Gd bulk samples has been enhanced through nanostructuring ...
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Ball milling as a way to produce magnetic and magnetocaloric materials: a review

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Álvarez Gómez, J.M.; Sánchez Jiménez, D.; Lozano Pérez, S.; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Springer Nature, 2017)
Ball milling (BM) is a well-established technique for producing different materials in powder shape. Dynamical analysis ...
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Study of Phases Evolution in High-coercive MnAl Powders Obtained Through Short Milling Time of Gas-atomized Particles

Law, Jia Yan; Rial, J.; Villanueva, M.; López, N.; Camarero, J.; Marshall, L. G.; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Borrego Moro, Josefa María; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Lewis, L. H.; Bollero, A. (Elsevier, 2017)
Gas-atomized Mn54Al46 particles constituted nominally of only ε- and γ2-phases, i.e. no content of the ferromagnetic ...
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A New Method for Determining the Curie Temperature From Magnetocaloric Measurements

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Marsilius, Mie; Budinsky, Viktoria; Herzer, Giselher (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016)
A new method is proposed for determining the Curie temperature from magnetocaloric measurements. It is based on the field ...
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A unified approach to describe the thermal and magnetic hysteresis in Heusler alloys

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Gottschall, Tino; Skokov, Konstantin P.; Gutfleisch, Oliver (American Institute of Physics Publising LLC, 2016)
Different excitations, like temperature, magnetic field, or pressure, can drive a martensitic transition in Heusler alloys. ...
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Anisotropy field distribution in soft magnetic Hitperm alloys submitted to different field annealing processes

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Marcin, Jozef; Andrejka, Frantisek; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Skorvanek, Ivan (Elsevier, 2016)
The magnetic anisotropy field distribution is discussed for Hitperm alloys annealed under different field conditions leading ...
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Magnetocaloric response of amorphous and nanocrystalline Cr-containing Vitroperm-type alloys

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Marsilius, M.; Budinsky, V.; Herzer, G. (Elsevier, 2016)
The broad compositional range in which transition metal (TM) based amorphous alloys can be obtained, yields an easily ...
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Optimal temperature range for determining magnetocaloric magnitudes from heat capacity

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2016)
The determination of the magnetocaloric magnitudes (specific magnetic entropy change, Δs M, and adiabatic temperature ...
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Study of the Induced Anisotropy in Field Annealed Hitperm Alloys by Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Kerr Microscopy

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Marcin, Jozef; Andrejka, Frantisek; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Skorvanek, Ivan (Springer Nature, 2016)
Samples of Fe39Co39Nb6B15Cu1 alloy were nanocrystallized under zero field annealing (ZF) and transverse field annealing ...
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Large magnetocaloric effect in fine Gd2O3 nanoparticles embedded in porous silica matrix

Zeleňáková, Adriana; Hrubovcˇak, P.; Kapusta, O.; Zelenák, Vladimir; Franco García, Victorino (AIP Publishing, 2016)
The magnetocaloric properties of a composite material consisting of isolated GdO nanoparticles with a diameter of 6-8 nm ...
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Applicability of scaling behavior and power laws in the analysis of the magnetocaloric effect in second-order phase transition materials

Romero-Muñiz, Carlos; Tamura, Ryo; Tanaka, Shu; Franco García, Victorino (American Physical Society, 2016)
In recent years, universal scaling has gained renewed attention in the study of magnetocaloric materials. It has been ...
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The influence of magnetocrystalline anisotropy on the magnetocaloric effect: A case study on Co 2B

Fries, M; Skokov, Konstantin P.; Karpentov, Dmitriy; Franco García, Victorino; Ener, S; Gutfleisch, O (AIP Publishing, 2016)
The influence of magnetocrystalline anisotropy on the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) was studied on single crystals of CoB ...
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Characterization of the magnetic interactions of multiphase magnetocaloric materials using first-order reversal curve analysis

Franco García, Victorino; Béron, F.; Pirota, Kleber R.; Knobel, Marcelo; Willard, Matthew A. (AIP Publishing, 2015)
In order to understand the magnetocaloric response of materials, it is important to analyze the interactions between the ...
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Influence of Hot Compaction on Microstructure and Magnetic Properties of Mechanically Alloyed Fe(Co)-based Amorphous Compositions

Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Borrego Moro, Josefa María; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Stoica, M.; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2015)
Amorphous Fe75Nb10B15 and (Fe70Co30)75Nb10B15 alloys were prepared by mechanical alloying from the elemental constituents ...
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Analysis of magnetocaloric effect of ball milled amorphous alloys: Demagnetizing factor and Curie temperature distribution

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Franco García, Victorino; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2015)
The magnetocaloric effect (MCE) has been measured for an amorphous mechanically alloyed (MA) Co62Nb6Zr2B30. It is demonstrated ...
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Enhanced cryogenic magnetocaloric effect in Eu8Ga16Ge30 clathrate nanocrystals

Biswas, Anis; Chandra, Sayan Rout; Stefanoski, S.; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Phan, Manh Huong; Franco García, Victorino; Nolas, George S.; Srikanth, Hariharan (AIP Publishing, 2015)
We observe an enhanced magnetic entropy change ( D S M ) at cryogenic temperatures (T < 20 K) in Eu 8 Ga 16 Ge 30 clathrate ...
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Influence of microstructure on the enhancement of soft magnetic character and the induced anisotropy of field annealed HITPERM-type alloys

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Marcin, Jozef; Varga, Melinda; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Škorvánek, Ivan (AIP Publishing, 2015)
Hitperm-type rapidly quenched ribbons were submitted to field annealing, both longitudinal field (LF) and transversal field ...
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On the broadening of the magnetic entropy change due to Curie temperature distribution

Franco García, Victorino; Álvarez Alonso, Pablo; Sánchez Llamazares, José L.; Sánchez Valdés, César F.; Cuello, Gabriel J.; Gorria, Pedro; Blanco, Jesús A. (AIP Publishing, 2014)
We have studied the correlation between the broadening of the isothermal magnetic entropy change and the Curie temperature ...
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Milling effects on magnetic properties of melt spun Fe-Nb-B alloy

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Stoica, M. (AIP Publishing, 2014)
Fe75Nb10B15 amorphous ribbons were grinded via ball milling to produce powder samples preserving the amorphous ...
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A procedure to extract the magnetocaloric parameters of the single phases from experimental data of a multiphase system.

Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (AIP Publishing, 2014)
In this work, we propose a method to extract the individual parameters that describe the field dependence of magnetic ...
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Extracting the composition of nanocrystals of mechanically alloyed systems using Mössbauer spectroscopy

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2014)
Determining the composition at the nanoscale generally requires the use of experimental techniques such as 3D atom probe ...
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Magnetocaloric effect of Co62Nb6Zr2B30 amorphous alloys obtained by mechanical alloying or rapid quenching

Moreno Ramírez, Luis Miguel; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Borrego Moro, Josefa María; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (2014)
Amorphous samples of nominal composition Co62Nb6Zr2B30 have been prepared using mechanical alloying (MA) and rapid quenching ...
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Impact of structural disorder on the magnetic ordering and magnetocaloric response of amorphous Gd-based microwires.

Biswas, Anis; Yu, Yikyung; Bingham, Nicholas S.; Wang, Huan; Qin, Faxiang; Sun, Jianfei; Yu, Seongho; Franco García, Victorino; Srikanth, Hariharan; Phan, Manh Huong (AIP Publishing, 2014)
We have studied the impact of structural disorder on the magnetic ordering and magnetocaloric response of amorphous ...
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Optimizing the Curie temperature of pseudo-binary RxR'2-xFe17 (R,R' = rare earth) for magnetic refrigeration

Alvarez Alonso, Pablo; Gorria, Pedro; Cuello, Grabiel; Puente Orench, Inés; Sánchez Llamazares, José L.; Franco García, Victorino; Reiffers, Miriam; Blanco, Jesús A. (IOP Publishing, 2014)
Several pseudo-binary RxR'2-xFe17 alloys (with R = Y, Ce, Pr, Gd and Dy) were synthesized with rhombohedral Th2Zn17-type ...
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Influence of the demagnetizing factor on the magnetocaloric effect: Critical scaling and numerical simulations

Romero-Muñiz, Carlos; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (AIP Publishing, 2014)
In recent years, the magnetocaloric effect is studied not only for the search of potential magnetic refrigerant materials ...
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Relationship between mechanical amorphization and boron integration during processing of FeNbB alloys

Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Borrego Moro, Josefa María; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2014)
Fe75Nb10B15 alloys were prepared by mechanical alloying using different boron powders (crystalline B, commercial amorphous ...
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Crystallization kinetics and soft magnetic properties in metalloid-free (Fe, Co)90Zr10 amorphous and nanocrystalline alloys

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Cabrera, David; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2014)
Microstructure and magnetic properties of metalloid-free (Fe100- xCox)90Zr10 amorphous and nanocrystalline alloys were ...
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Magnetic properties and magnetocaloric effects in GdCo9Si2 compound with multiple magnetic phase transitions

Franco García, Victorino; Zheng, Zhigang; Zhong, Xichun; Zhang, J. L.; Liu, Z. W.; Zeng, Dechang (AIP Publishing, 2013)
The structure and magnetic properties of polycrystalline GdCo9Si2 compound have been investigated. It has a BaCd11 structure ...
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Low hysteresis and large room temperature magnetocaloric effect of Gd 5Si2.05-xGe1.95-xNi2x (2x 0.08, 0.1) alloys

Franco García, Victorino; Zhong, Xichun; Min, J. X.; Liu, Z. W.; Zheng, Zhigang; Zeng, Dechang; Ramanujan, Raju Vijayaraghavan (AIP Publishing, 2013)
Gd5Si2.05-xGe1.95-xNi2x (2x ¼ 0.08, 0.1) alloys were prepared by arc melting followed by annealing at 1273 K for 96 h. ...
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The use of amorphous boron powder enhances mechanical alloying in soft magnetic FeNbB alloy: A magnetic study

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Franco García, Victorino; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián (AIP Publishing, 2013)
Saturation magnetization and magnetic anisotropy have been studied during mechanical alloying of Fe75Nb10B15 alloys prepared ...
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Role of starting phase of boron on the mechanical alloying of FeNbB composition

Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Lozano Pérez, S.; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2013)
Mechanical alloyed Fe75Nb10B15 systems, prepared with crystalline or commercial amorphous boron and a similar composition ...
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Influence of magnetic interactions between phases on the magnetocaloric effect of composites

Romero-Muñiz, Carlos; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (AIP Publishing, 2013)
Magnetocaloric materials with coexisting magnetic phases appear either due to the phase coexistence in first order phase ...
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Excellent magnetocaloric properties of melt-extracted Gd-based amorphous microwires

Bingham, Nicholas S.; Wang, Huan; Qin, F.; Peng, H. X.; Sun, J. F.; Franco García, Victorino; Srikanth, Hariharan; Phan, Manh Huong (AIP Publishing, 2012)
We report upon the excellent magnetocaloric properties of Gd53Al24Co20Zr3 amorphous microwires. In addition to obtaining ...
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Influence of isochronal annealing on the microstructure and magnetic properties of Cu-free HITPERM Fe40.5Co40.5Nb7B12 alloy

Gupta, P.; Ganguli, Tapas; Gupta, A.; Sinha, A.K.; Deb, S.K.; Svec Jr., P.; Franco García, Victorino (AIP Publishing, 2012)
Systematic study of the effect of isochronal annealing on the structure and magnetic properties of Cu-free HITPERM alloy ...
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Enhancement of the Magnetic Refrigerant Capacity in Partially Amorphous Fe 70Zr 30 Powders Obtained by Mechanical Alloying

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2012)
After mechanical alloying Fe 70Zr 30 composition from pure starting powders, an amorphous phase with Curie temperature T ...
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The magnetocaloric effect and critical behavior in amorphous Gd 60Co 40-xMn x alloys.

Zheng, Zhigang; Zhong, Xichun; Yu, Hongya; Franco García, Victorino; Liu, Z. W.; Zeng, Dechang (AIP Publishing, 2012)
The amorphous alloys Gd60Co40−xMnx (x = 0, 5, 10, 15) were prepared by melt spinning. The Curie temperature,T c, increases ...
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Magnetic Multilayers as a Way to Increase the Magnetic Field Responsiveness of Magnetocaloric Materials

Caballero Flores, Rafael; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Kiss, L.F.; Péter, L.; Bakonyi, I. (American Scientific Publishers, 2012)
The magnetocaloric response of Ni–Cu based multilayers has been studied with the aim of optimizing their magnetic field ...
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The magnetocaloric effect of partially crystalline Fe-B-Cr-Gd alloys.

Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino; Ramanujan, Raju Vijayaraghavan (AIP Publishing, 2012)
The influence of annealing temperature and crystallization on the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) of Fe-B-Cr-Gd partially ...
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Magnetocaloric effect and critical exponents of Fe77Co 5.5Ni5.5Zr7B4Cu1: A detailed study

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Franco García, Victorino; Caballero Flores, Rafael; Knipling, Keith E.; Willard, Matthew A. (AIP Publishing, 2011)
The critical exponents of the alloy have been determined with the Kouvel–Fisher method to predict the field dependence of ...
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Efecto magnetocalórico en materiales con transiciones de fase de segundo orden: Optimización de la capacidad de refrigeración

Caballero Flores, Rafael; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Franco García, Victorino (2011)
La tesis presenta un estudio del efecto magnetocalórico en materiales con transiciones de fase de segundo orden. Se centra ...
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Optimization of the refrigerant capacity in multiphase magnetocaloric materials

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Caballero Flores, Rafael; Franco García, Victorino; Knipling, Keith E.; Willard, Matthew A. (AIP Publishing, 2011)
The refrigerant capacity (RC) of magnetocaloric materials can be enhanced using multiphase materials or composites, which ...
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Direct magnetocaloric measurements of Fe-B-Cr-X (X = La, Ce) amorphous ribbons

Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino; Ramanujan, Raju Vijayaraghavan (American Institute of Physics, 2011)
A procedure has been developed to directly measure the adiabatic temperature change of amorphous melt-spun Fe-based ribbons ...
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Influence of La and Ce additions on the magnetocaloric effect of Fe–B–Cr-based amorphous alloys

Law, Jia Yan; Franco García, Victorino; Ramanujan, Raju Vijayaraghavan (American Institute of Physics, 2011)
The magnetic entropy change (ΔSM), temperature of peak ΔSM (Tpk) and refrigerant capacity (RC) in Fe(RE)80B12Cr8 (RE = La, ...
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Two Milling Time Regimes in the Evolution of Magnetic Anisotropy of Mechanically Alloyed Soft Magnetic Powders

Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2011)
The milling time evolution of magnetic anisotropy of ball milled powders can be described considering two regimes. First, ...
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Magneto-caloric effect in the pseudo-binary intermetallic YPrFe17 compound

Álvarez, Pablo; Gorria, Pedro; Sánchez Llamazares, José L.; Pérez, María J.; Franco García, Victorino; Blanco, Jesús A. (Elsevier, 2011)
We have synthesized the intermetallic YPrFe17 compound by arc-melting. X-ray and neutron powder diffraction show that the ...
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Origin of the magnetic anomaly and tunneling effect of europium on the ferromagnetic ordering in Eu8-xSrxGa16Ge30 (x = 0,4) type-I clathrates.

Franco García, Victorino; Phan, Manh Huong; Chaturvedi, Anurag; Stefanoski, Stevce; Nolas, George S.; Srikanth, Hariharan (American Physical Society, 2011)
Systematic dc magnetization studies using the Banerjee criterion, Kouvel-Fisher, and magnetocaloric effect methods provide ...
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Tunable magnetocaloric effect in Gd-based glassy ribbons

Franco García, Victorino; Mayer, Charlotte; Gorsse, Stéphane; Ballon, Géraldine; Caballero Flores, Rafael; Chevalier, Bernard (AIP Publishing, 2011)
The series of glassy ribbons Gd 60 M 30 In 10 ( M ¼ Mn, Co, Ni, Cu) was synthesized by melt-spinning. The change of ...
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Analysis of the magnetoresistance contributions in a nanocrystallized Cr-doped FINEMET alloy

Kiss, L.F.; Franco García, Victorino; Csontos, M. Péter, L; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Kemény, T.; Tóth, J.; Varga, L.K.; Bakonyi, I. (Elsevier, 2011)
The magnetoresistance (MR) was measured at 200, 250 and 300 K in magnetic fields up to B=12 T for a nanocrystallized ...
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Universal behavior for magnetic entropy change in magnetocaloric materials: An analysis on the nature of phase transitions

Franco García, Victorino; Bonilla, Claudia Marcela; Herrero Albillos, Julia (The American Physical Society, 2010)
A universal curve for the change in the magnetic entropy has been recently proposed for materials with second-order phase ...
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Magnetocaloric effect and refrigerant capacity in Sr-doped Eu8 Ga16 Ge30 type-I clathrates

Franco García, Victorino; Phan, Manh Huong; Chaturvedi, Anurag; Stefanoski, S.; Kirby, H.; Nolas, G.S.; Srikanth, Hariharan (AIP Publishing, 2010)
Magnetic properties, the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) and refrigerant capacity (RC) were investigated in Eu8Sr8−xGa16Ge30 ...
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Field dependence of the magnetocaloric effect in core-shell nanoparticles

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Franco García, Victorino; Deepti, Sidhaye; Prasad, B. L.V.; Poddar, P.; Srinath, S.; Phan, Manh Huong; Srikanth, Hariharan (AIP Publishing, 2010)
The field dependence of the magnetic entropy change peak at the low temperature surface spin freezing transition in ...
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Influence of Mn on the magnetocaloric effect of nanoperm-type alloys

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Caballero Flores, Rafael; Franco García, Victorino; Kiss, László Ferenc (AIP Publishing, 2010)
In this paper, the influence of the Mn content on the magnetocaloric response of ribbon-shaped amorphous samples of ...
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Influence of Co and Ni addition on the magnetocaloric effect in Fe88−2xCoxNixZr7B4Cu1 soft magnetic amorphous alloys

Caballero Flores, Rafael; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Knipling, Keith E.; Willard, Matthew A. (AIP Publishing, 2010)
We have studied the magnetocaloric effect in a series of Fe88−2xCoxNixZr7B4Cu1Fe88−2xCoxNixZr7B4Cu1alloys. The partial ...
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Structure and magnetic properties of Fe–Nb–B amorphous/nanocrystalline alloys produced by compaction of mechanically alloyed powders

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Krasnowski, Marek; Kulik, Tadeusz A.; Lozano Pérez, S. (AIP Publishing, 2010)
Mechanical alloying of Fe75Nb10B15 and Fe85Nb5B10 systems has been performed from an initial mixture of elemental powders. ...
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A new criterion to distinguish the order of magnetic transitions by means of magnetic measurements

Bonilla, C. M.; Bartolomé, Fernando; García, L. M.; Parra Borderías, María; Herrero Albillos, Julia; Franco García, Victorino (American Institute of Physics, 2010)
A universal curve for the magnetic entropy change has been found to exist for a variety of materials with second order ...
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Field dependence of the adiabatic temperature change in second order phase transition materials: Application to Gd

Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Romero Enrique, José Manuel; Spichkin, Y. I.; Zverev, V. I.; Tishin, A. M. (AIP Publishing, 2009)
The field dependence of the adiabatic temperature change LlTad of second order phase transition materials is studied, both ...
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Correlation between microstructure and temperature dependence of magnetic properties in Fe 60 Co 18 ( Nb , Zr ) 6 B 15 Cu 1 alloy series

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Ferenc, J.; Kulik, Tadeusz A.; Kiss, László Ferenc (AIP Publishing, 2009)
Temperature dependence of magnetic properties of nanocrystalline Fe60Co18Cu1B15Nb6−xZrx (x =0, 3, 6) alloys has been studied ...
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Influence of the demagnetizing field on the determination of the magnetocaloric effect from magnetization curves

Caballero Flores, Rafael; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Kiss, László Ferenc (AIP Publishing, 2009)
The influence of the demagnetizing factor (N) on the magnetic entropy change (DSM) curves is studied for materials with a ...
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The magnetocaloric effect in materials with a second order phase transition: Are T C and T peak necessarily coincident?

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Franco García, Victorino; Kuz'min, Michael D.; Romero Enrique, José Manuel (AIP Publishing, 2009)
Using the Arrott–Noakes equation of state it is shown that the Curie point TC and the temperature where the magnetic ...
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Magnetocaloric response of Fe75Nb10B15Fe75Nb10B15 powders partially amorphized by ball milling

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Kiss, László Ferenc (AIP Publishing, 2009)
The magnetocaloric response of mechanically alloyed Fe75Nb10B15 powders was studied for samples with different amorphous ...
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Supersaturated Solid Solution Obtained by Mechanical Alloying of 75% Fe, 20% Ge and 5% Nb Mixture at Different Milling Intensities

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Millán, M.; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Oleszak, D.; Kulik, T. (Elsevier, 2009)
Mechanical alloying process of Fe75Ge20Nb5 composition has been studied at different milling frequencies from initial pure ...
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Instantaneous growth approximation describing the nanocrystallization process of amorphous alloys: A cellular automata model

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Millán Muñoz, María; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2008)
A cellular automata simulation based on an instantaneous growth approximation is developed to model the nanocrystallization ...
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A phenomenological fitting curve for the magnetocaloric effect of materials with a second-order phase transition

Dong, Q. Y.; Zhang, H. W.; Sun. J. R.; Shen, B. G.; Franco García, Victorino (AIP Publishing, 2008)
The magnetic entropy change of polycrystalline samples Gd, La(Fe0.92Co0.08)11.83Al1.17, LaFe10.8Si2.2, Mn5Ge2.7Ga0.3, ...
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Tailoring of magnetocaloric response in nanostructured materials: Role of anisotropy

Franco García, Victorino; Pirota, Kleber R.; Prida, Victor M.; Neto, Antonio Maia J. C.; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Knobel, Marcelo; Hernando, Blanca; Vázquez, Manuel (2008)
The magnetocaloric response of an ensemble of oriented uniaxial magnetic objects, perpendicularly magne- tized to their ...
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Mechanical alloying of Fe100−x−yNbxBy (x = 5, 10; y = 10, 15): from pure powder mixture to amorphous phase

Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2008)
The mechanical alloying process of Fe75Nb10B15 and Fe85Nb5B10 systems has been studied from an initial mixture of elemental ...
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An Equivalent Time Approach for Scaling the Mechanical Alloying Processes

Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Millán Muñoz, María; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Oleszak, D.; Kulik, T. (Elsevier, 2008)
Dynamics of a single ball into a planetary ball mill is analyzed leading to a cubic dependence of the power transferred ...
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Nanocrystallization effects on the specific heat of fe-co-nb-b amorphous alloy

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Millán, Mitchel D.; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2008)
Specific heat at constant pressure, CP, was measured on amorphous, nanocrystalline and fully crystalline samples of ...
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Magnetocaloric response of FeCrB amorphous alloys: Predicting the magnetic entropy change from the Arrott–Noakes equation of state.

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Kiss, László Ferenc; Franco García, Victorino (AIP Publishing, 2008)
The magnetic entropy change in Fe92−xCr8Bx x=12,15 amorphous alloys has been studied. Increasing the B content, both the ...
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Magnetic permeability of ( Fe Co Ge ) 88 Zr 6 B 5 Cu 1 alloys: Thermal stability in a wide temperature range.

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Franco García, Victorino; Kiss, László Ferenc (AIP Publishing, 2008)
Temperature dependence, from room temperature up to 1000 K, of the initial permeability of Fe83−xCoxGe5Zr6B5Cu1 x=5 ...
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Influence of Ge addition on the magnetocaloric effect of a Co-containing Nanopermtype alloy.

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Franco García, Victorino; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián (AIP Publishing, 2008)
The influence of the partial substitution of B by Ge on the magnetocaloric response of Fe78Co5Zr6B10Cu1 is studied. Ge ...
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High Temperature Coercivity of Nb-containing HITPERM Alloys: Effect of Cu Addition

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Ferenc, J.; Kulik, T. (Elsevier, 2008)
Hysteresis loops of nanocrystalline samples of Fe39Co39Nb6B16 - yCuy (y = 0, 1) HITPERM-type alloys were measured from ...
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Field dependence of the magnetocaloric effect in Gd and (Er 1-xDyx)Al2: Does a universal curve exist?

Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Pecharsky, V. K.; Gschneidner jr., K. A. (2007)
The field dependence of the magnetic entropy change of ferromagnetic lanthanide- based materials has been studied. The ...
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A constant magnetocaloric response in FeMoCuB amorphous alloys with different FeB ratios 

Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Švec, P.; Janičkovič, D.; Kiss, László Ferenc (AIP Publishing, 2007)
The magnetocaloric effect of Fe91−xMo8Cu1Bx (x = 15 , 17 , 20) amorphous alloys has been studied. The temperature of the ...
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Enhanced magnetocaloric response in Cr/Mo containing Nanoperm-type amorphous alloys

Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Kiss, László Ferenc (AIP Publishing, 2007)
The magnetocaloric effect of Fe76Cr8−xMoxCu1B15 (x =0,4) alloys is studied. Although the combined addition of Cr and Mo ...
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Ball Milling of Fe83Zr6B10Cu1 Amorphous Alloy Containing Quenched in Crystals

Ipus Bados, Jhon Jairo; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2007)
A Fe83B10Zr6Cu1 melt-spun amorphous alloy has been ball milled in the presence of partially crystalline ribbon pieces, in ...
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Mean magnetic moment of polydisperse superparamagnetic nanoparticles: Correlation between grain size and magnetic moment distributions

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (American Scientific Publishers, 2007)
The field dependence of magnetization in superparamagnetic systems can be fitted using a set of Langevin contributions ...
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Magnetocaloric effect in Mn-containing Hitperm-type alloys.

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Millán, Mitchel D. (AIP Publishing, 2007)
The magnetocaloric effect of Fe60−xMnxCo18Nb6B16 x=0,2,4 is studied. Mn addition decreases the Curie temperature of the ...
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Thermal and Microstructural Dependence of the Initial Permeability of Co60Fe18Nb6(B,Cu)16 Alloys

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Kiss, L. F. (Elsevier, 2007)
The thermal and microstructural dependence of the initial permeability of Co60Fe18Nb6B16-yCuy (y = 0, 1) alloys have been ...
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Nanocrystalline Fe-Nb-(B,Ge) alloys from ball milling: microstructure, thermal stability and magnetic properties

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2007)
Fe75B20Nb5, Fe75Ge10B10Nb5 and Fe75Ge20Nb5 alloys were prepared by ball milling from pure powders and their microstructure ...
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The magnetocaloric effect in soft magnetic amorphous alloys

Franco García, Victorino; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Millán, M; Borrego Moro, Josefa María; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (2007)
The influence of different compositional modifications on the magnetic entropy change and refrigerant capacity of Finemet, ...
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Joule heating as a technique for obtaining uncoupled soft and hard magnetic phases in a Finemet alloy

Gupta, Pramod K.; Gupta, Ajay.; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (AIP Publishing, 2007)
A detailed study on the microstructural evolution of the Fe73.9Cu0.9Nb3.1Si13.2B8.9 Finemet alloy upon Joule heating and ...
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Thermal and Microstructural Stability of the Soft Magnetic Fe60Co18Nb6B15Cu1 alloy

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Ferenc, J.; Kulik, T. (Elsevier, 2007)
Temperature evolution of the coercivity of nanocrystalline samples of Fe60Co18Nb6B15Cu1 alloy with different crystalline ...
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The influence of Co addition on the magnetocaloric effect of Nanoperm-type amorphous alloys

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Franco García, Victorino; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián (AIP Publishing, 2006)
The effect of Co addition on the magnetocaloric effect of amorphous alloys with Nanoperm-type composition has been studied ...
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Ball milling nanocrystallization of arc-melted and melt-spun Fe78Co5Nb3Zr3B5Ge5Cu1 alloy: microstructure and magnetic properties

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Roth, Stefan (Taylor & Francis, 2006)
The viability of developing a nanocrystalline microstructure for the Fe78Co5Nb3 Zr3B5Ge5Cu1 composition using a planetary ...
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Mössbauer study of a Fe–Zr–B–Cu–(Ge, Co) nanocrystalline alloy series

Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2006)
Amorphous and nanocrystalline Fe–Zr–B–Cu alloys with partial substitution of Co for Fe and Ge for B have been studied by ...
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Refrigerant capacity of FeCrMoCuGaPCB amorphous alloys

Franco García, Victorino; Borrego Moro, Josefa María; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (2006)
The magnetocaloric effect of the FeCrMoCuGaPCB alloy series, suitable for being prepared as bulk amorphous alloys, has ...
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A Finemet-type alloy as a low-cost candidate for high-temperature magnetic refrigeration

Franco García, Victorino; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (AIP Publishing, 2006)
The refrigerant capacity RC of Fe68.5Mo5Si13.5B9Cu1Nb3 alloy is studied. For the amorphous sample, RC=63 J kg−1 for an ...
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Influence of Co addition on the magnetocaloric effect of FeCoSiAlGaPCB amorphous alloys

Franco García, Victorino; Borrego Moro, Josefa María; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (2006)
The FeCoSiAlGaPCB alloys can be prepared as bulk amorphous materials, with outstanding mechanical properties and increased ...
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Field dependence of the magnetocaloric effect in materials with a second order phase transition: A master curve for the magnetic entropy change

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino (AIP Publishing, 2006)
The field dependence of the magnetic entropy change can be expressed as SM Hn. For soft magnetic amorphous alloys n=1 ...
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Relationship between coercivity and magnetic moment of superparamagnetic particles with dipolar interaction

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Franco García, Victorino (2005)
The temperature dependence of the hysteresis loops of Nanoperm-type alloys has been studied. In the high-temperature region ...
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Soft magnetic properties of high-temperature nanocrystalline alloys: Permeability and magnetoimpedance.

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Blázquez Gámez, Javier Sebastián; Franco García, Victorino; Kiss, László Ferenc (AIP Publishing, 2003)
The technological applicability of FeCoNbBCu alloys is suggested in terms of measurements of room temperature ...
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High-temperature evolution of coercivity in nanocrystalline alloys.

Franco García, Victorino; Kiss, László Ferenc; Kemény, T.; Vincze, imre; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (American Physical Society, 2002)
The temperature evolution of the coercivity of a Finemet-type alloy, in which 10 at. % Fe has been substi- tuted by Cr ...
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Dipole–dipole interaction in superparamagnetic nanocrystalline Fe63.5Cr10Si13.5B9Cu1Nb3

Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Kiss, L.F.; Kaptás, D.; Kemény, T.; Vincze, I. (AIP Publishing, 2001)
Cr-substituted Finemet-type nanocrystalline alloy (Fe63.5Cr10Si13.5B9Cu1Nb3) has been studied by differential scanning ...
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Magnetic anisotropy obtained from demagnetization curves: Influence of particle orientation and interactions

Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Franco García, Victorino (AIP Publishing, 1999)
The influence of easy axis orientation and interparticle interactions on the apparent magnetic anisotropy distribution, ...
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Effect of the Si/B ratio on the magnetic anisotropy distribution of Fe73.5Si22.52xBxCu1Nb3 „x57,9,16… alloys along nanocrystallization

Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (AIP Publishing, 1998)
The effect of the Si/B ratio on the magnetic anisotropy distribution of Fe73.5Si22.52xBxCu1Nb3 (x57,9,16) alloys has been ...
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Propiedades magnéticas y nanocristalización de una aleación FeSiBCuNb

Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Clara Francisca; Conde Amiano, Alejandro (Elsevier, 1997)
La desvitrificación de la aleación amorfa Fe75Cu2Nb3SÍ2Q 5 B9 5 tiene lugar en dos etapas. El principal resultado de la ...
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Autocalibrating quasistatic M‐H hysteresis loop tracer with negligible drift

Franco García, Victorino; Conde Amiano, Alejandro; Ramos Martos, J. (AIP Publishing, 1996)
A computer‐controlled system for measuring M‐Hhysteresis loops of soft magnetic materials is described. It overcomes many ...