A detailed study of the structural, magnetic, magnetocaloric and electrical effect properties in polycrystalline manganite La0.5Sm0.1Sr0.4Mn0.975In0.025O3 is presented. The X-ray diffraction pattern is consistent with a rhombohedral structure with R3̄c space group. Experimental results revealed that our compound prepared via a sol-gel method exhibits a continuous (second-order) ferromagnetic (FM) to paramagnetic (PM) phase transition around the Curie temperature (T C = 300 K). In addition, the magnetic entropy change was found to reach 5.25 J kg-1 K-1 under an applied magnetic field of 5 T, corresponding to a relative cooling power (RCP) of 236 J kg-1. We have fitted the experimental data of resistivity using a typical numerical method (Gauss function). The simulation values such as maximum resistivity (ρ max) and metal-semiconductor transition temperature (T M-Sc), calculated from this function, showed a perfect agreement with the experimental data. The shifts of these parameters as a function of magnetic field for our sample have been interpreted. The obtained values of β and γ, determined by analyzing the Arrott plots, are found to be T C = 298.66 ± 0.64 K, β = 0.325 ± 0.001 and γ = 1.25 ± 0.01. The critical isotherm M (T C, μ 0 H) gives δ = 4.81 ± 0.01. These critical exponent values are found to be consistent and comparable to those predicted by the three-dimensional Ising model with short-range interaction. Thus, the Widom scaling law is fulfilled.
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