“…A few examples for this class of materials with a giant MCE are Gd 5 Si 2 Ge 2 , 5,6 Fe-Rh alloys, 7,8 La(Fe,Si) 13 -based alloys, 9,10 MnAs Heusler alloys [11][12][13] and RE 1Àx A x Mn 1Ày TM y O 3 (RE -rare earth metal, A -divalent/monovalent ion, TM -transition metal) perovskite manganites. [14][15][16][17][18][19] Among perovskite manganites, lanthanum-based mixedvalence manganites with the general formula La 1Àx A x MnO 3 (A is mostly a divalent ion, Ca, Ba or Sr) show a variety of fascinating properties, like colossal magnetoresistance (CMR), [20][21][22] charge ordering (CO), 23,24 phase separation (PS), 25,26 the magnetocaloric effect (MCE), 1,[27][28][29][30] etc. For (La,Ca)MnO 3 , both end members LaMnO 3 and CaMnO 3 are typical antiferromagnets with T N close to 140 K and 130 K, respectively.…”