Growth of fiberform nanostructures on metal surfaces by helium plasma irradiation

S Kajita, AM Ito, K Ibano - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Helium plasma irradiation to various metals leads to peculiar morphology changes as
forming fiberform nanostructures called fuzz when a certain set of conditions is satisfied. In …

Investigation of plasma wall interactions between tungsten plasma facing components and helium plasmas in the WEST tokamak

E Tsitrone, B Pegourie, JP Gunn, E Bernard… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
ITER will operate with a tungsten divertor, a material featuring surface morphology changes
when exposed to helium plasmas, in particular the formation of the so called tungsten fuzz …

Onset of fuzz formation in plasma-facing tungsten as a surface morphological instability

CS Chen, D Dasgupta, RD Kolasinski, BD Wirth… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Based on simulation results and theoretical analysis according to an atomistically informed
continuum-scale model for the surface morphological response of tungsten plasma-facing …

Molecular-Dynamics Analysis of the Mechanical Behavior of Plasma-Facing Tungsten

A Weerasinghe, E Martinez, BD Wirth… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report a systematic computational analysis of the mechanical behavior of plasma-facing
component (PFC) tungsten focusing on the impact of void and helium (He) bubble defects …

Effects of surface vacancy-adatom pair formation on PFC tungsten surface morphological response

CS Chen, D Dasgupta, A Weerasinghe… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a simulation study of the effect of He-irradiation-induced surface vacancy-adatom
pair formation on the surface morphological evolution of plasma-facing component (PFC) …

Structures and energetics of multiple helium atoms in a tungsten monovacancy

C Song, J Hou, XS Kong, L Chen, S Wang… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
Helium exposure is known to induce severe damages in tungsten materials, which are often
linked with the aggregation of helium at vacancies. Yet even for the simplest case of …

[HTML][HTML] Hole formation effect on surface morphological response of plasma-facing tungsten

CS Chen, D Dasgupta, BD Wirth… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We report simulation results on the effect of helium (He) bubble bursting-mediated surface
hole formation on the surface morphological response of tungsten plasma-facing …

Thermal expansion of plasma-exposed tungsten

A Weerasinghe, BD Wirth, D Maroudas - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We report results from a systematic analysis of thermal expansion of plasma-exposed
tungsten based on molecular-dynamics simulations using models of tungsten with …

Helium bubble size effects on the surface morphological response of plasma-facing tungsten

ON Patel, D Dasgupta, BD Wirth… - Materials Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a simulation study on the effects of helium (He) bubble size on the morphological
evolution and pattern formation on the surface of tungsten used as a plasma-facing …

[HTML][HTML] Strain Effects on the Diffusion Properties of Near-Surface Self-Interstitial Atoms and Adatoms in Tungsten

B Sun, D Maroudas, BD Wirth, E Martínez - Frontiers in Materials, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tungsten (W) is a candidate for the plasma-facing components and divertor in future fusion
applications. The material will be subject to a large particle influx (mainly helium and …