Interactions of mobile helium clusters with surfaces and grain boundaries of plasma-exposed tungsten

L Hu, KD Hammond, BD Wirth… - Journal of Applied Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We report results of atomistic computations for the interactions of small mobile helium
clusters (He n) with free surfaces and grain boundaries (GBs) in tungsten toward …

[HTML][HTML] Helium aggregation and surface morphology near grain boundaries in plasma-facing tungsten

KD Hammond, D Maroudas, BD Wirth - Journal of Applied Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We conduct molecular dynamics simulations of helium in tungsten to study the interaction of
helium with grain boundaries. Model systems with grain boundary planes perpendicular to …

Molecular dynamics simulations of helium cluster formation in tungsten

KOE Henriksson, K Nordlund, J Keinonen - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2006 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics simulations of helium implantation into single-crystalline tungsten at 0
and 300K have been performed. Non-damaging ion energies of 50, 100 and 200eV were …

Helium segregation on surfaces of plasma-exposed tungsten

D Maroudas, S Blondel, L Hu… - Journal of Physics …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a hierarchical multi-scale modeling study of implanted helium segregation on
surfaces of tungsten, considered as a plasma facing component in nuclear fusion reactors …

Modeling helium segregation to the surfaces of plasma-exposed tungsten as a function of temperature and surface orientation

S Blondel, KD Hammond, L Hu… - Fusion Science and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We provide a description of the dependence on surface crystallographic orientation and
temperature of the segregation of helium implanted with energies consistent with low-energy …

Dynamics of small mobile helium clusters near tungsten surfaces

L Hu, KD Hammond, BD Wirth, D Maroudas - Surface Science, 2014 - Elsevier
We report the results of a systematic atomic-scale analysis of the dynamics of small mobile
helium clusters in tungsten, near tungsten surfaces. These helium clusters are attracted to …

Dynamics of small mobile helium clusters near a symmetric tilt grain boundary of plasma-exposed tungsten

L Hu, KD Hammond, BD Wirth… - Fusion Science and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We report the results of a systematic atomic-scale analysis of small helium cluster dynamics
near a Σ3< 111>{121} symmetric tilt grain boundary (GB) in tungsten based on molecular …

The behavior of small helium clusters near free surfaces in tungsten

AV Barashev, H Xu, RE Stoller - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2014 - Elsevier
The results of a computational study of helium–vacancy clusters in tungsten are reported. A
recently developed atomistic kinetic Monte Carlo method employing empirical interatomic …

[HTML][HTML] Helium segregation and transport behavior near⟨ 100⟩ and⟨ 110⟩ symmetric tilt grain boundaries in tungsten

Z Yang, L Hu, D Maroudas, KD Hammond - Journal of Applied Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We report the results of a systematic atomistic modeling study of small helium cluster
behavior near tungsten symmetric tilt grain boundaries. This behavior was studied …

Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of helium cluster nucleation in tungsten with preexisting vacancies

Z Yang, S Blondel, KD Hammond… - Fusion Science and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The object kinetic Monte Carlo code Kinetic Simulations Of Microstructure Evolution
(KSOME) was used to study the subsurface helium clustering behavior in tungsten as a …