This review summarizes the more-than-25-years of development of the so-called thermionic
vacuum arc (TVA). TVA is an anodic arc discharge in vapors of the material to be deposited; …

Magnesium and magnesium thin alloy films were deposited using a thermionic vacuum arc
(TVA), which has multiple applications in the field of metallic electrodes for diodes and …

The thermionic vacuum discharge method is very effective in that the films obtained using
this technology are characterised by a very high degree of adhesion, density and purity …

Gas seeding is often used in tokamaks to reduce the power load onto the divertor target
plates. Nitrogen is the preferred seeding species because of its favourable radiative …

Beryllium–tungsten thin films with well controlled elemental composition were prepared
using Thermionic Vacuum Arc (TVA) technique and subsequently exposed to steady state …

The inconel cladding tiles of the ITER-like-wall to be tested at JET will be coated by a
beryllium layer. Carbon containing tiles will be also present. These materials are sputtered …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of the thermionic vacuum arc (TVA)
operation parameters (arc current, arc voltage and thermo-emission filament current) on the …

Three batches of pure beryllium (Be), pure tungsten (W) and mixed Be: W (50: 50) coatings
were deposited by using the thermionic vacuum arc (TVA) technique. Different superficial …

Since the operation conditions for the nuclear fuel removal in a fusion power plant like ITER
involves wall baking at high temperatures of the plasma facing components–ie 515K for the …

Deuterium retention and release behavior were investigated in this study, for beryllium,
tungsten and mixed beryllium/tungsten thin layers which are of concern for next-generation …