Reply to “Comment on the Magnetocaloric Effect of LaFe11.6Si1.4, La0.8Nd0.2Fe11.5Si1.5, and Ni43Mn46Sn11 Compounds in the Vicinity of the First-Order Phase Transition”

✍ Scribed by Jun-Ding Zou; Bao-Gen Shen; Bo Gao; Jun Shen; Ji-Rong Sun

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 303 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0935-9648
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.200901435

✦ Synopsis

We appreciate the comments of Man ˜osa et al. on our recently published paper, [1] which reported a method to properly evaluate the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in the vicinity of a first-order phase transition and reveal the puzzled origin of spike-like entropy change for the LaFe 11.