Giant Magnetocaloric Effect in Magnets Down to the Monolayer Limit

2D magnets can potentially revolutionize information technology, but their potential application to cooling technology and magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in a material down to the monolayer limit remain unexplored. Herein, it is revealed through multiscale calculations the existence of giant MCE and it...

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Published in:Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) Germany), 2023-09, Vol.19 (36), p.e2300333-e2300333
Main Authors: He, Weiwei, Yin, Yan, Gong, Qihua, Evans, Richard F L, Gutfleisch, Oliver, Xu, Bai-Xiang, Yi, Min, Guo, Wanlin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Compressive properties
Cooling
Magnetic cooling
Magnetic moments
Magnets
Monolayers
Nanotechnology
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Summary:2D magnets can potentially revolutionize information technology, but their potential application to cooling technology and magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in a material down to the monolayer limit remain unexplored. Herein, it is revealed through multiscale calculations the existence of giant MCE and its strain tunability in monolayer magnets such as CrX (X = F, Cl, Br, I), CrAX (A = O, S, Se; X = F, Cl, Br, I), and Fe GeTe . The maximum adiabatic temperature change ( ), maximum isothermal magnetic entropy change, and specific cooling power in monolayer CrF are found as high as 11 K, 35 µJ m  K , and 3.5 nW cm under a magnetic field of 5 T, respectively. A 2% biaxial and 5% a-axis uniaxial compressive strain can remarkably increase of CrCl and CrOF by 230% and 37% (up to 15.3 and 6.0 K), respectively. It is found that large net magnetic moment per unit area favors improved MCE. These findings advocate the giant-MCE monolayer magnets, opening new opportunities for magnetic cooling at nanoscale.
ISSN:1613-6810
1613-6829
DOI:10.1002/smll.202300333