Ion-driven deuterium retention in tungsten

The ion-driven retention of deuterium in polycrystalline tungsten (PCW) is studied experimentally and theoretically as a function of temperature, incident ion energy, and ion fluence. Deuterium retention was investigated by thermodesorption spectroscopy and ion beam analysis. The peculiarities of deuterium behavior in PCW such as (i) ion-induced defect formation at low-energy implantation and (ii) higher D retention of low-energy ions (60-200 eV) compared to high-energy ions (3 keV) at high fluences are considered. The effect of intrinsic defects (dislocations, vacancies, grain boundaries) and ion-induced defects (vacancies, dislocations, deuterium clusters) is discussed for polycrystalline tungsten. (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics.