Preliminary design of the COMPASS upgrade tokamak

P Vondracek, R Pánek, M Hron, J Havlicek… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
COMPASS Upgrade is a new medium size, high magnetic field tokamak (R= 0.9 m, B t= 5 T,
I p= 2 MA) currently under design in the Czech Republic. It will provide unique capabilities …

Ceramic-chromium hall sensors for environments with high temperatures and neutron radiation

S Entler, Z Soban, I Duran, K Kovarik, K Vyborny… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ceramic-chromium Hall sensors represent a temperature and radiation resistant alternative
to Hall sensors based on semiconductors. Demand for these sensors is presently motivated …

Development of the diagnostic tools for the COMPASS-U tokamak and plans for the first plasma

V Weinzettl, P Bilkova, I Duran, M Hron, R Panek… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The COMPASS-U tokamak (R= 0.894 m, a= 0.27 m, B t= 5 T, I p= 2 MA) is a new
medium-size device with fully metallic plasma facing components, currently under …

Prospects for the steady-state magnetic diagnostic based on antimony Hall sensors for future fusion power reactors

S Entler, I Duran, M Kocan, G Vayakis, M Kohout… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the case of fusion devices with long pulses or continuous operation, conventional
magnetic sensors, such as inductive sensors, have to be supplemented by steady-state …

Novel concept suppressing plasma heat pulses in a tokamak by fast divertor sweeping

J Horacek, S Lukes, J Adámek, J Havlicek, S Entler… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
One of the remaining challenges in magnetic thermonuclear fusion is survival of the heat
shield protecting the tokamak reactor vessel against excessive plasma heat fluxes …

Temperature dependence of the Hall coefficient of sensitive layer materials considered for DEMO Hall sensors

S Entler, I Duran, K Kovarik, P Sladek, O Grover… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Hall sensors as a part of the DEMO magnetic diagnostics will perform an absolute
measurement of the steady-state magnetic field. However, the magnitude of the Hall …

[HTML][HTML] Data acquisition with real-time numerical integration for COMPASS-U magnetic diagnostics

A Torres, BB Carvalho, T Markovic, AJN Batista… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The COMPASS-U tokamak will feature a completely new set of magnetic diagnostics from
sensors to data acquisition. In order to control and reconstruct the plasma magnetic …

Modelling of Neutron Markers for the COMPASS Upgrade Tokamak and Generation of Synthetic Neutron Spectra

F Jaulmes, O Ficker, V Weinzettl, M Komm… - Journal of Fusion …, 2022 - Springer
In the future COMPASS Upgrade (Vondracek et al. in Fusion Eng Des 169: 112490,
https://doi. org/10.1016/j. fusengdes. 2021.112490, 2021) tokamak (R 0= 0.894 m, B t∼ 5 T) …

Conceptual design of tomographic soft X-ray detectors for COMPASS-U tokamak

J Svoboda, M Imrisek, K Mikszuta-Michalik… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COMPASS-U tokamak is designed at IPP CAS Prague. It will be a compact device that
should achieve high toroidal magnetic field and high wall temperatures. In order to observe …

[HTML][HTML] Conceptual design of Fiber Bragg Grating temperature sensors for heat load measurements in COMPASS-U plasma-facing components

J Caloud, E Tomesova, V Balner, O Bogár… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Information about the temperature of plasma-facing components is important for a
reliable tokamak operation. A temperature monitoring system using Fiber Bragg Grating …