In this paper, we present a brief historic overview of the research on dust in fusion devices
with carbon plasma-facing components and then highlight the most recent developments in …

Dusty plasmas are electrically quasi-neutral media that, along with electrons, ions, neutral
gas, radiation, and electric and/or magnetic fields, also contain solid or liquid particles with …

In state-of-the-art stellarators, turbulence is a major cause of the degradation of plasma
confinement. To maximize confinement, which eventually determines the amount of nuclear …

Pulsed injections of boron carbide granules into Wendelstein 7-X stellarator (W7-X) plasmas
transiently increase the plasma stored energy and core ion temperatures above the …

Injection of impurities in the form of sub-millimeter powder grains is performed for the first
time in the Large Helical Device (LHD) plasma, employing the Impurity Powder Dropper …

Using a recently installed impurity powder dropper (IPD), boron powder (< 150 μm) was
injected into lower single null (LSN) L-mode discharges in WEST. IPDs possibly enable real …

Controlled particulate injections from the PPPL impurity powder dropper (IPD) into the Large
Helical Device have demonstrated positive effects on the wall conditions on both an intra …

It is estimated that pilot plants and reactors may experience rates of net erosion and
deposition of solid plasma facing component (PFC) material of 10 3–10 5 kg yr− 1. Even if …

Silicon carbide (SiC) represents a promising but largely untested plasma-facing material
(PFM) for next-step fusion devices. In this work, an analytic mixed-material erosion model is …

The evolution of point defects is crucial in determining the radiation resistance of materials in
a fusion environment. A comprehensive investigation of diffusion mechanisms for intrinsic …