A. A. Fraerman, I. A. Shereshevskii, “Magnetocaloric effect in ferromagnet/paramagnet multilayer structures”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2015, Volume 101, Issue 9,Pages <nobr>693

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Magnetocaloric effect in ferromagnet/paramagnet multilayer structures

A. A. Fraerman^ab, I. A. Shereshevskii^ab

^a Nizhny Novgorod State University, pr. Gagarina 23, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
^b Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia

Abstract: The magnetocaloric effect in ferromagnet/paramagnet multilayer structures is studied in the framework of the Landau phenomenological theory of phase transitions. The performed estimations demonstrate the possibility of achieving record cooling efficiency with such structures.

Received: 17.02.2015
Revised: 24.03.2015

DOI: 10.7868/S0370274X15090076