Liquid surfaces for fusion plasma facing components—A critical review. Part I: Physics and PSI

RE Nygren, FL Tabarés - Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
This review of the potential of robust plasma facing components (PFCs) with liquid surfaces
for applications in future D/T fusion device summarizes the critical issues for liquid surfaces …

Material testing facilities and programs for plasma-facing component testing

C Linsmeier, B Unterberg, JW Coenen… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Component development for operation in a large-scale fusion device requires thorough
testing and qualification for the intended operational conditions. In particular environments …

Unraveling atomic-level self-organization at the plasma-material interface

JP Allain, A Shetty - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The intrinsic dynamic interactions at the plasma-material interface and critical role of
irradiation-driven mechanisms at the atomic scale during exposure to energetic particles …

Hydrogen retention in lithium and lithium oxide films

L Buzi, Y Yang, FJ Domínguez-Gutiérrez… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
Pure lithium (Li) surfaces are difficult to maintain in fusion devices due to rapid oxide
formation, therefore, parameterizing and understanding the mechanisms of hydrogen (H, D) …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the surface chemistry processes in lithiated and boronized plasma material interfaces under extreme conditions

PS Krstic, JP Allain, FJ Dominguez-Gutierrez… - Matter and Radiation …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The review of recent theoretical and experimental research on the complex surface
chemistry processes that evolve from low-Z material conditioning on plasma-facing materials …

Hydrogen retention in lithium on metallic walls from “in vacuo” analysis in LTX and implications for high-Z plasma-facing components in NSTX-U

R Kaita, M Lucia, JP Allain, F Bedoya, R Bell… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The application of lithium to plasma-facing components (PFCs) has long been used as a
technique for wall conditioning in magnetic confinement devices to improve plasma …

Dependence of LTX plasma performance on surface conditions as determined by in situ analysis of plasma facing components

M Lucia, R Kaita, R Majeski, F Bedoya, JP Allain… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Materials Analysis and Particle Probe (MAPP) diagnostic has been
implemented on the Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX) at PPPL, providing the first in situ X …

Fusion applications for lithium: wall conditioning in magnetic confinement devices

R Kaita - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The application of lithium to plasma facing components (PFCs) has been widely used to
improve plasma performance in magnetic confinement devices. The ability of lithium to …

First lithium experiments in HIDRA and evidence of helium retention during quasi-steady-state stellarator plasma operations

D Andruczyk, A Shone, Z Koyn… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Recent experiments in Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications
(HIDRA) have had operational discharges between t discharge= 60 and 1000 s using …

The in situ ion irradiation toolbox: Time-resolved structure and property measurements

E Lang, CA Dennett, N Madden, K Hattar - JOM, 2022 - Springer
The dynamic interactions of ions with matter drive a host of complex evolution mechanisms,
requiring monitoring on short spatial and temporal scales to gain a full picture of a material …