Abstract
The paper deals with the development of laser induced
breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) into an in situmethod for
studying erosion/deposition processes at the first walls
of fusion reactors. To this end, sam-ples extracted from
the divertor tiles of ASDEX Upgrade after the 2009 plasma
operations were analyzedusing LIBS for their composition
and the results were compared with other post mortem
deposition data.Quantitative depth profiles for the
elemental concentrations were extracted from LIBS spectra
by apply-ing a novel data processing method. In addition,
both multiline and multispot averaging procedureswere
applied to reduce fluctuations in the data. The LIBS
concentration profiles matched qualitativelywith those
given by secondary ion mass spectrometry and
quantitatively with the ion-beam data. Thedeuterium
content of the samples could be reliably determined if
the surface densities were >1017at/cm2.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1349-1352 |
Journal | Fusion Engineering and Design |
Volume | 98-99 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- plasma-facing components
- LIBS diagnostics
- elemental depth profiles
- fuel retention
- data processing