Fig. 4: Comparison of magnetocaloric materials.

Comparison of \(\Delta {S}_{T}^{\max }\) and \(\Delta {T}_{{{{{\rm{ad}}}}}}^{\max }\) values for the Gd5SixGe1−x family from the present work (stars) with literature data from refs. 3, 23, 67,68,69,70,71,72, 76,77,78,79,80 showing a large magnetocaloric effect at cryogenic temperatures under magnetic-field application of 2 (left) and 5 T (right).