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SUBMITTER: Jang D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4846311 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20151023
Adiabatic demagnetization is currently gaining strong interest in searching for alternatives to (3)He-based refrigeration techniques for achieving temperatures below 2 K. The main reasons for that are the recent shortage and high price of the rare helium isotope (3)He. Here we report the discovery of a large magnetocaloric effect in the intermetallic compound YbPt2Sn, which allows adiabatic demagnetization cooling from 2 K down to 0.2 K. We demonstrate this with a home-made refrigerator. Other m ...[more]