Helium, hydrogen, and fuzz in plasma-facing materials

KD Hammond - Materials Research Express, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Tungsten, the primary material under consideration as the divertor material in magnetic-
confinement nuclear fusion reactors, has been known for the last decade to form'fuzz'—a …

On the origin of 'fuzz'formation in plasma-facing materials

D Dasgupta, RD Kolasinski, RW Friddle, L Du… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Tungsten, the material used in the plasma-facing components (PFCs) of nuclear fusion
reactors, develops a fuzz-like surface morphology under typical reactor operating conditions …

A new loop-punching mechanism for helium bubble growth in tungsten

H Xie, N Gao, K Xu, GH Lu, T Yu, F Yin - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Growth of helium (He) bubbles with different initial sizes in tungsten (W) has been
investigated by performing molecular dynamics simulations. Based on the simulation results …

The dynamic response of He bubble in bicrystal copper under uniaxial compression and tension

Q Zhu, JL Shao, P Wang - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
He bubbles can exhibit different behaviors due to their different positions in the
nanocrystalline materials. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study the dynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Fuzzy nanostructure growth on Ta/Fe by He plasma irradiation

S Kajita, T Ishida, N Ohno, D Hwangbo, T Yoshida - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
In this study, we show from helium (He) plasma irradiation to tantalum and iron surfaces that
morphology changes in nanoscale occur on the both metals. In particular, from systematic …

Increased photoelectrochemical performance of vanadium oxide thin film by helium plasma treatment with auxiliary molybdenum deposition

S Kajita, T Eda, S Feng, H Tanaka… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Helium (He) plasma treatment can be a versatile tool to fabricate nanostructures on a
surface and change the surface chemistry. Herein, vanadium (V) thin film is exposed to …

Helium effects on the surface and subsurface evolutions in single-crystalline tungsten

C Fan, C Li, CM Parish, Y Katoh, X Hu - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Tungsten (W) has been perceived as one of the most promising plasma facing materials
(PFMs) for future fusion reactors. In the past decade, its behavior under irradiation and …

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 …

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) …

Diffusion and incidence of helium on tungsten surface

J Wang, J Guo, B He, D Liu, XD Pan, XC Li… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigated the diffusion and incidence of helium on tungsten surfaces
using first principles and molecular dynamics methods. For three common tungsten surfaces …