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National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

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Schematic of the magnetocaloric material developed in this study. In the absence of an applied magnetic field (right), the spin moments of the Gd atoms (white arrows) in the upper and lower slabs, which are connected by inter-slab Ge atom, are not aligned. When a magnetic field is applied (left), the spins align, resulting in an increase in temperature.

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Tang Xin, National Institute for Materials Science; Sepehri Navid Hossein Sepehri-Amin, National Institute for Materials Science; Tadakatsu Ohkubo, National Institute for Materials Science; Yoshio Miura, Kyoto Institute of Technology; Shintaro Kobayashi, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute; Takuo Ohkochi, University of Hyogo; Konstantin Skokov, Technical University of Darmstadt

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