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Magnetocaloric properties of La0.7Ca0.3Mn16O3 and La0.7Ca0.3Mn18O3 manganites and their sandwich

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 Publication date 2012
  fields Physics
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It is shown that the use of sandwich from materials with near similar magnetocaloric properties increases the relative cooling power by about 20 %.



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