Mateus, R.; Catarino, N.; Dias, M.; Alves, L.C.; Romanenko, O.; Siketić, Zdravko; Bogdanović Radović, Ivančica; Hakola, A.; Grigore, E.; Alves, E.
(2023)
Deuterium and helium retention in W and W-Ta coatings irradiated with energetic ion beams.
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 538
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pp. 41-46.
ISSN 0168-583X
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 2H+2 or with sequential 4He+/2H+2 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.
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