Transmission Kikuchi diffraction in a scanning electron microscope: A review

GC Sneddon, PW Trimby, JM Cairney - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
Transmission Kikuchi diffraction (TKD), also known as transmission electron backscatter
diffraction (t-EBSD), has received significant interest for the characterisation of …

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 …

Selective laser melting of high-performance pure tungsten: parameter design, densification behavior and mechanical properties

C Tan, K Zhou, W Ma, B Attard, P Zhang… - … and Technology of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Selective laser melting (SLM) additive manufacturing of pure tungsten encounters nearly all
intractable difficulties of SLM metals fields due to its intrinsic properties. The key factors …

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 …

Key mechanistic features of swelling and blistering of helium-ion-irradiated tungsten

FI Allen, P Hosemann, M Balooch - Scripta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Helium-ion-induced swelling and blistering of single-crystal tungsten is investigated using a
Helium Ion Microscope for site-specific dose-controlled irradiation (at 25 keV) with analysis …

Morphologies of tungsten nanotendrils grown under helium exposure

K Wang, RP Doerner, MJ Baldwin, FW Meyer… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Nanotendril “fuzz” will grow under He bombardment under tokamak-relevant conditions on
tungsten plasma-facing materials in a magnetic fusion energy device. We have grown …

[HTML][HTML] Tungsten fuzz: Deposition effects and influence to fusion devices

S Kajita, N Yoshida, N Ohno - Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Helium (He) plasma irradiation to tungsten leads to formation of He bubbles and fiberform
nanostructures called fuzz on the surface. Although the fuzz growth condition and growth …

Effect of starting microstructure on helium plasma-materials interaction in tungsten

K Wang, ME Bannister, FW Meyer, CM Parish - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
In a magnetic fusion energy (MFE) device, the plasma-facing materials (PFMs) will be
subjected to tremendous fluxes of ions, heat, and neutrons. The response of PFMs to the …

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 …

Growth origin of large-scale fiberform nanostructures in He–W co-deposition environment

K Hori, S Kajita, R Zhang, H Tanaka, N Ohno - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
When tungsten (W) is deposited with helium (He) plasma (He–W co-deposition) on W
surface, enhanced growth of fiberform nanostructure (fuzz) occurs, and sometimes it grows …