Refractory metals as structural materials for fusion high heat flux components

D Hancock, D Homfray, M Porton, I Todd… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
Tungsten is the favoured armour material for plasma facing components for future fusion
reactors, but studies examining the use of tungsten or other refractory metals in the …

A prospect of using ternary W-5 wt% V-5 wt% Ta alloy manufactured by mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering as plasma-facing material

H Cui, N Liu, L Luo, Y Xu, J Cheng, Y Wu - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
For ensuring W employed as the armor of the divertor component in International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, a ternary W alloy W-5 wt% V-5 wt% Ta was …

Helium retention, bubble superlattice formation and surface blistering in helium-irradiated tungsten

T Wang, H Kim, X Wang, AM Pacheco… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
The microstructural evolution and helium retention in polycrystalline tungsten (W) implanted
with 100 keV helium ions at different temperatures to a wide range of different fluences were …

Low energy Kr5+ ion beam engineering in the optical, structural, surface morphological and electrical properties of RF sputtered TiO2 thin films

V Kumar, R Kumar - Optical Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Titanium dioxide (TiO 2) thin films were grown on Silicon and glass substrates at room
temperature by RF sputtering deposition technique. All deposited thin films were irradiated …

[HTML][HTML] High-temperature defect recovery in self-ion irradiated W-5 wt% Ta

X Yi, K Arakawa, Y Du, F Ferroni, W Han, P Liu… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2019 - Elsevier
A study of high-temperature defect recovery has been carried out for W-5 wt% Ta alloy,
irradiated with 2 MeV W+ ions at 500° C, up to 1.2 dpa. After post-irradiation annealing at …

LIBS study of ITER relevant tungsten–oxygen coatings exposed to deuterium plasma in Magnum-PSI

I Jõgi, P Paris, M Laan, J Kozlova, H Mändar… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
We discuss the applicability of laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for deuterium
retention analysis in compact and porous tungsten-oxide (WO) coatings. Deuterium loading …

Effect of Ta addition on the fuzz formation of additively manufactured W-based materials

K Li, Y Li, W Chen, C Zhao, Y Yuan, L Cheng… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
As a divertor plasma-facing material, W will experience high-flux plasma irradiation. In
particular, severe surface morphology change like fuzz formation can be induced by He …

Effect of ELM pacing on morphology evolution and erosion of tungsten as a plasma-facing material in a fusion environment

G Sinclair, S Gonderman, JK Tripathi… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
Mitigation of transient plasma events in a future fusion device is necessary to minimize
thermal damage on surrounding plasma facing components (PFCs). Intense heat loading …

The effect of W2+ irradiation and He+ exposure on W-Ta alloy fabricated via SPS

C Wu, J Du, P Wen, J Tang, T Zhao, J Chen… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Tungsten (W) has been selected as the material for the divertor in ITER due to its good
thermal and mechanical properties, and alloying of tungsten has been considered as a …

Influence of W content on microstructure and surface morphology of hard Ni-W films fabricated by magnetron co-sputtering

AR Esmaeili, N Mir, R Mohammadi - Journal of Vacuum Science & …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Due to their unique mechanical, tribological, thermal, and anticorrosion properties, nickel-
tungsten (Ni-W) alloy films have become indispensable for many industrial applications. The …