Graduation Year
2014
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.S.
Degree Granting Department
Physics
Major Professor
Casey W. Miller, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Hariharan Srikanth, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Denis Karaiskaj, Ph.D.
Keywords
Critical Behavior, Magnetism, Magnetocalorics, Universality
Abstract
This work contains a broad study of a variety of magnetic materials undergoing second order phase transitions. In general this leads to an overall increase in information and analytical methods to further the field of magnetocalorics. Specifically, critical aspects of magnetocaloric materials were compared within systems in relation to structure, stoichiometry, magnetic minority phases and magnetic contaminants. Detailed analyses were developed to quantify techniques which were in the past used mainly in a qualitative way, leading to a more complete understanding of how critical phenomena impacts the magnetocaloric response.
Scholar Commons Citation
Belyea, Dustin David, "Analysis of Critical Behavior in Magnetic Materials" (2014). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/5180
