Materials Science and Engineering: B, cilt.310, 2024 (SCI-Expanded)
In the present study, the effects of Bi doping on the Mn-site of La0.7Ca0.27Na0.03Mn1-xBixO3 perovskite manganites on their structural, magnetic, and magnetocaloric properties were investigated. From XRD analyses, the main La0.7Ca0.27Na0.03MnO3 manganite has a rhombohedral structure with space group R3¯c. In contrast, manganites obtained by doping with x = 0.005, 0.01, and 0.02 Bi were found to have an orthorhombic structure with space group Pnma. The Curie temperature (TC) is 310, 246, 235, and 232 K for x = 0.0, 0.005, 0.01 and 0.02, respectively. The maximum entropy change (-ΔSMmax) values were calculated as 6.34, 8.24, 8.33, and 8.42 Jkg-1K−1 for x = 0.0, 0.005, 0.01 and 0.02, respectively. The highest Relative Cooling Power (RCP) value was computed as 271 Jkg−1 for the sample with a Bi concentration of 0.01. It was determined from the H/M versus M2 curves that all samples displayed a second-order magnetic phase transition.