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 …

Radiation-induced helium bubbles in metals

SH Li, JT Li, WZ Han - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Helium (He) bubbles are typical radiation defects in structural materials in nuclear reactors
after high dose energetic particle irradiation. In the past decades, extensive studies have …

Tungsten surface evolution by helium bubble nucleation, growth and rupture

F Sefta, KD Hammond, N Juslin, BD Wirth - Nuclear Fusion, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Molecular dynamics simulations reveal sub-surface mechanisms likely involved in the initial
formation of nanometre-sized'fuzz'in tungsten exposed to low-energy helium plasmas …

Interatomic potentials for simulation of He bubble formation in W

N Juslin, BD Wirth - Journal of nuclear materials, 2013 - Elsevier
A new interatomic pair potential for W–He is described, which includes a short range
modification to the Ackland–Thetford tungsten potential. Molecular dynamics simulations …

Ab initio study of helium in : Dissolution, migration, and clustering with vacancies

CC Fu, F Willaime - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2005 - APS
Density functional theory calculations have been performed to study the dissolution and
migration of helium in α-iron, and the stability of small helium-vacancy clusters He n V m (n …

[PDF][PDF] 1.06-The effects of helium in irradiated structural alloys

Y Dai, GR Odette, T Yamamoto - Comprehensive Nuclear …, 2012 - researchgate.net
MD Molecular dynamics MS Molecular statics NF Nanofeatures NFA Nanostructured ferritic
alloys ODE Ordinary differential equation OEMS(Positron) orbital electron momentum …

Large-scale atomistic simulations of low-energy helium implantation into tungsten single crystals

KD Hammond, S Blondel, L Hu, D Maroudas, BD Wirth - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of post-implantation helium behavior in plasma-
facing tungsten single crystals reveal orientation-dependent depth profiles, surface evolution …

Radiation damage in helium ion irradiated nanocrystalline Fe

KY Yu, Y Liu, C Sun, H Wang, L Shao, EG Fu… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2012 - Elsevier
Fe films with an average columnar grain size varying from 49 to 96nm are deposited by
magnetron sputtering technique. Sputtered films have predominant body centered cubic …

Competing kinetics and He bubble morphology in W

L Sandoval, D Perez, BP Uberuaga, AF Voter - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
The growth process of He bubbles in W is investigated using molecular dynamics and
parallel replica dynamics for growth rates spanning 6 orders of magnitude. Fast and slow …

An object Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of the dynamics of helium and point defects in tungsten

CS Becquart, C Domain - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2009 - Elsevier
In the near surface of plasma facing materials, high concentrations of hydrogen and helium
isotopes can build up, which will interact with the point defects resulting from the …