Campus Units
Materials Science and Engineering, Ames Laboratory
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
6-15-2019
Journal or Book Title
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
DOI
10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.06.150
Abstract
Reversible, diffusionless, first-order solid-solid phase transitions accompanied by caloric effects are critical for applications in the solid-state cooling and heat-pumping devices. Accelerated discovery of caloric materials requires reliable but faster estimators for predictions and high-throughput screening of system-specific dominant caloric contributions. We assess reliability of the computational methods that provide thermodynamic properties in relevant solid phases at or near a phase transition. We test the methods using the well-studied B2 FeRh alloy as a “fruit fly” in such a materials genome discovery, as it exhibits a metamagnetic transition which generates multicaloric (magneto-, elasto-, and baro-caloric) responses. For lattice entropy contributions, we find that the commonly-used linear-response and small-displacement phonon methods are invalid near instabilities that arise from the anharmonicity of atomic potentials, and we offer a more reliable and precise method for calculating lattice entropy at a fixed temperature. Then, we apply a set of reliable methods and estimators to the metamagnetic transition in FeRh (predicted K, observed K) and calculate the associated caloric properties, such as isothermal entropy and isentropic temperature changes.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Copyright Owner
Elsevier B.V.
Copyright Date
2019
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Zarkevich, Nikolai A. and Johnson, Duane D., "Reliable thermodynamic estimators for screening caloric materials" (2019). Materials Science and Engineering Publications. 336.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/mse_pubs/336
Comments
This is a manuscript of an article published as Zarkevich, Nikolai A., and Duane D. Johnson. "Reliable thermodynamic estimators for screening caloric materials." Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.06.150. Posted with permission.