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Structural, Magnetocaloric, and Critical Behavior of La0.5Ca0.5Mn1−xVxO3 Manganites Prepared by High-Energy Ball Milling

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The high-energy ball milling method has been used to synthesize the polycrystalline powders La0.5Ca0.5Mn1−xVxO3 (x = 0.05, x = 0.10). The Rietveld refinement technique shows that the samples crystallized in the orthorhombic structure with the Pbnm space group. The La0.5Ca0.5Mn0.95V0.05O3 exhibits a second-order phase transition from paramagnetic (PM) to ferromagnetic (FM) state at TC = 208 ± 1 K followed by a second one from FM to charge ordering–antiferromagnetic state at TN = 150.0 ± 0.1 K when decreasing temperature. The substituted sample with 10% amount of vanadium dopant corresponds to the disappearance of the charge-order phase; meanwhile, it was suppressed for 5% of the vanadium in the solid-state route. The Curie temperature TC increases with vanadium content from 208 ± 1 K for x = 0.05 to 255 ± 1 K for x = 0.10. The values of the maximum of the magnetic entropy change under a magnetic field change of 5 T are found to be 2.95 ± 0.04 J kg−1 K−1 and 5.42 ± 0.07 J kg−1 K−1 corresponding to a relative cooling power RCP = 128.4 ± 0.3 and 220.8 ± 0.7 for x = 0.05 and x = 0.10 respectively. The order of phase transition has been determined. The critical exponent study has been performed for La0.5Ca0.5Mn0.9V0.10O3 by using the Arrott plot, Kouvel–Fisher method, and critical isotherm analysis. The measured β, γ, and δ values are in agreement with those expected for the tricritical mean-field model.

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Acknowledgments

M. Mansouri is grateful to the CIC nanoGUNE (Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain) and especially to Andreas Berger and all members of the nanomagnetism group.

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This work was funded by the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. L. Fallarino would like to thank the funding support from the Predoctoral program of the Basque Government through Grant. No. PRE_2015_2_0126.

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  1. Digital Research Center of Sfax, LT2S Lab (LR16 CRNS 01), Technopark. Cité El Ons, BP. 275, 3021, Sfax, Tunisia

    Moufida Mansouri, W. Cheikhrouhou-Koubaa & A. Cheikhrouhou

  2. Center for Functionalized Magnetic Materials, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia, 236041

    Moufida Mansouri

  3. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Bautzner Landstrasse 400, 01328, Dresden, Germany

    L. Fallarino

  4. Unité de recherche Matériaux Avancés et Nanotechnologies (URMAN), Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Kasserine, Kairouan University, BP. 471, 1200, Kasserine, Tunisia

    R. M’nassri

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Mansouri, M., Fallarino, L., M’nassri, R. et al. Structural, Magnetocaloric, and Critical Behavior of La0.5Ca0.5Mn1−xVxO3 Manganites Prepared by High-Energy Ball Milling. J Supercond Nov Magn 33, 995–1005 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-019-05247-w

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