Magnetocaloric materials with a Curie temperature near room temperature have attracted
significant interest for some time due to their possible application for high‐efficiency …

The discovery of giant caloric effects and further investigation on device systems that can
compete with current heat management technologies in terms of efficiency have led to a …

Magnetic cooling has been researched as an alternative near room-temperature
refrigeration technology for the past two decades. However, one of its greatest limitations is …

The development of efficient active magnetic regenerators (AMR) is highly dependent on the
regenerative matrix thermal performance. Matrix geometries should have a high thermal …

Active magnetic regeneration is one of the most promising alternative technologies for the
development of heat pumps and cooling systems for applications around room temperature …

We present an experimentally validated analytical procedure to design nested Halbach
cylinder arrays for magnetic cooling applications. The procedure aims at maximizing the …

In this second part of a two-part paper, a mathematical model of active magnetic
regenerators is applied to identify and quantify the main losses taking place in the AMR …

Layering magnetocaloric materials with different transition temperatures is an effective way
to improve the cooling performance of magnetic cooling systems. The optimum layering …

In this paper, a novel rotary magnetic refrigerator is described, and initial experimental
results are presented. The prototype employs a two-pole magnetic system based on a …

Magnetic refrigeration is one of the most prominent unconventional near-room-temperature
cooling technologies. However, some factors currently prevent it from reaching commercial …