TY - JOUR
AU - Sakamoto, Ryuichi
AU - Bernard, Elodie
AU - Kreter, Arkadi
AU - Martin, Céline
AU - Pégourié, Bernard
AU - Pieters, Gregory
AU - Rousseau, Bernard
AU - Grisolia, Christian
AU - Yoshida, Naoaki
TI - Surface morphology in tungsten and RAFM steel exposed to helium plasma in PSI-2
JO - Physica scripta
VL - T170
SN - 1402-4896
CY - Bristol
PB - IoP Publ.
M1 - FZJ-2018-01634
SP - 014062 -
PY - 2017
AB - Impact of the helium plasma exposure on the surface modification in tungsten and reduced activation ferritic/martensitic (RAFM) steel have been investigated on the linear plasma device PSI-2 assuming the condition of DEMO first wall. In tungsten, a nanoscale undulating surface structure, which has a periodic arrangement, is formed under low temperature conditions below fuzz nanostructure formation threshold ~1000 K. Interval and direction of the undulation shows dependence on the crystal orientation. A large variation in surface level up to 200 nm has been observed among grains at a fluence of $3\times {10}^{26}$ He m−2 showing dependence of the surface erosion rate on the crystal orientation. The {100} plane in which the undulating surface structure is not formed shows the highest erosion rate. This significant erosion is due to the multistage sputtering through impurity. In RAFM steel, sponge-like nanostructure is developed and it grows with increasing helium fluence beyond 1 μm. In the sponge-like nanostructure, a composition change from the base material is observed in which the tungsten ratio increases while the iron ratio decreases showing differences in sputtering ratio depending on the atomic mass.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000417694700007
DO - DOI:10.1088/1402-4896/aa93a2
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/844182
ER -