TY - JOUR A1 - Waske, Anja A1 - Dutta, B. A1 - Teichert, N. A1 - Weise, B. A1 - Shayanfar, N. A1 - Becker, A. A1 - Hütten, A. A1 - Hickel, T. T1 - Coupling Phenomena in Magnetocaloric Materials N2 - Strong coupling effects in magnetocaloric materials are the key factor to achieve a large magnetic entropy change. Combining insights from experiments and ab initio calculations, we review relevant coupling phenomena, including atomic coupling, stress coupling, and magnetostatic coupling. For the investigations on atomic coupling, we have used Heusler compounds as a flexible model system. Stress coupling occurs in first‐order magnetocaloric materials, which exhibit a structural transformation or volume change together with the magnetic transition. Magnetostatic coupling has been experimentally demonstrated in magnetocaloric particles and fragment ensembles. Based on the achieved insights, we have demonstrated that the materials properties can be tailored to achieve optimized magnetocaloric performance for cooling applications. KW - Epitaxial thin films KW - Coupling KW - Atomic Scale KW - Stoichiometric phases KW - Multilaysers KW - Stress Coupling KW - Surface defects PY - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-458856 VL - 6 IS - 8 SP - 1429 EP - 1447 PB - Wiley-VCH AN - OPUS4-45885 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -