Abstract
Alloy ribbons of nominal composition MnNiGe1.05 were produced using the melt-spinning technique. As-quenched (aq) polycrystalline ribbons are single-phase showing the hexagonal Ni2In-type crystal structure. After thermal annealing at 1148 K, the formation of the orthorhombic TiNiSi-type crystal structure by martensitic transformation is favored. However, XRD patterns for different temperatures indicate that the phase transition from hexagonal to orthorhombic structure is incomplete. The starting and finishing temperatures for the direct and reverse martensitic transformation for aq (annealed) samples determined by DSC were MS = 264 (268) K Mf = 235 (255) K, AS = 259 (266) K, and Af = 289 (276) K. Across this structural phase transition the annealed sample undergoes a drop in magnetization giving rise to a narrow temperature dependence of the magnetic entropy change with a peak value on heating (cooling) of 5.8 (4.8) Jkg−1K−1 for a field change of 5 T.
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