Heusler alloys, discovered serendipitously at the beginning of the twentieth century, have
emerged in the twenty-first century as exciting materials for numerous remarkable functional …

The magnetocaloric effect and its most straightforward application, magnetic refrigeration,
are topics of current interest due to the potential improvement of energy efficiency of cooling …

A magnetically, electrically or mechanically responsive material can undergo significant
thermal changes near a ferroic phase transition when its order parameter is modified by the …

Magnetic cooling could be a radically different energy solution substituting conventional
vapour compression refrigeration in the future. For the largest cooling effects of most …

Recent progress on caloric effects are reviewed. The application of external stimuli such as
magnetic field, hydrostatic pressure, uniaxial stress and electric field give rise respectively to …

Magnetic shape memory alloys (MSMAs) have recently been developed into a new class of
functional materials that are capable of magnetic‐field‐induced actuation, mechanical …

The authors report the observation of exchange bias in bulk polycrystalline Ni 50 Mn 25+ x
Sb 25− x Heusler alloys. Shifts in hysteresis loops of up to 248 Oe were observed in the 5 T …

A review is given of experimental and theoretical works concerning the investigation of
magnetic and structural phase transitions and of the magnetocaloric effect in Ni-Mn-X (X …

Caloric materials are in the spotlight as candidates for future environmentally friendly
cooling technologies. We describe stimulating recent developments in the three caloric …

Hafnia (HfO 2)-zirconia (ZrO 2) solid solution films show giant positive (ΔT= 13.4 K) and
negative (ΔT=-10.8 K) electrocaloric effects that can be simply controlled by tuning the Hf/Zr …