Articles you may be interested inTheoretical description of magnetocaloric effect in the shape memory alloy exhibiting metamagnetic behavior J. Appl. Phys. 119, 013902 (2016) The series of glassy ribbons Gd 60 M 30 In 10 (M ¼ Mn, Co, Ni, Cu) was synthesized by melt-spinning. The change of transition element M in these Gd-based metallic glasses was proven to induce huge variations of the Curie temperature T C , magnetic entropy change peak values DS m peak , and widths at half maximum values of the magnetic entropy change dT. When M is non magnetic (M ¼ Co, Ni, Cu), the samples behave similarly: they display high values of DS m peak (between -6.6 and -8.2 J/kg K in a magnetic field variation of 4.6 T), average dT values (between 77 and 120 K) and no magnetic hysteresis. On the contrary, when M carries a magnetic moment (M ¼ Mn), some irreversibility appears at low temperature, DS m peak is lower (only 3.1 J/kg K for l 0 H ¼ 4.6 T) and the magnetic transition is very large (dT ¼ 199 K for l 0 H ¼ 4.6 T). These features are explained by some antiparallel coupling between Mn atoms randomly located in the metallic glass. This leads to the occurrence of a cluster-glass behavior at low temperature (35 K), following the ferromagnetic transition observed at 180 K when the temperature is decreased. Also, power law fittings of DS m peak and dT versus l 0 H were performed and show that dT is less field dependent than DS m peak . We could then identify an interesting way of improving the refrigeration capacity of the material at low magnetic field.