Abstract
Different studies reveal the behaviour of Ta alloying to decrease deuterium retention in tungsten bulk materials aiming to be used for nuclear fusion applications. In this work, W and W-5 %Ta coatings were produced via magnetron sputtering techniques. The elemental composition of the samples and the spread of Ta in the W lattice was confirmed by GDOES, PIXE and by μ-PIXE, respectively. Sets of W and W-Ta coatings were simultaneously irradiated with a single 2H2+ or with sequential 4He+/2H2+ ion beam implantations using incident energies of 30 keV and ion fluences of 5 × 1017 ion/cm2. The irradiated samples were analysed by NRA/RBS and by ToF-ERDA to quantify the retained deuterium and helium amounts. The results reveal significantly lower contents of both isotopes in W-Ta.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 41-46 |
| Journal | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms |
| Volume | 538 |
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| Publication status | Published - May 2023 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Funding
This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200 - EUROfusion). Work performed under EUROfusion WP PFC. The research leading to this result has been partially supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, through projects UID/50010/2020 and PTDC/FIS-PLA/31629/2017, by the OP VVV project CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/18_053/0017163 of the Czech Academy of Sciences and by the RADIATE project under the Grant Agreement 824096 from the EU Research and Innovation programme HORIZON 2020.
Keywords
- Deuterium
- Helium
- Retention
- W-Ta coatings