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NUCLEAR FUSION
Volume 54, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/54/12/122003
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Plasma-surface interaction; hydrogen blistering; tungsten; low temperature
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- European Union's Horizon [633053]
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Blistering of tungsten (W) surfaces due to deuterium (D) implantation was investigated by a sequence of exposures at two different temperatures-230 and 450 K-and by the reversed sequence. A single exposure at 230 K leads to a high areal density of small dome-shaped blisters (up to 3 mu m in diameter) together with much smaller flat-topped structures, while a single 450-K exposure produces large dome-shaped blisters up to 40 mu m in diameter without the flat-topped structures. Most of the small dome-shaped blisters from 230 K exposure disappeared after annealing at 450 K for 17 h, but survived and even grew in size if the surface was exposed to D plasma during annealing. Sequential exposure at the two temperatures reveals a non-commutative behaviour: after a first exposure at 450 K the second exposure at 230 K leads to superposition of the observed blister structures without changing the large blisters from the first exposure. By contrast, a first exposure at 230 K almost completely suppresses the formation of large blisters during a second exposure at 450 K. Obviously, the presence of the small blisters strongly influences the penetration of D into the W bulk.
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