TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of hydrogen retention behavior in tungsten exposed to hydrogen plasma in QUEST
AU - Koike, Ayaka
AU - Nakata, Moeko
AU - Yamazaki, Shota
AU - Wada, Takuro
AU - Sun, Fei
AU - Zhao, Mingzhong
AU - Yoshida, Naoaki
AU - Hanada, Kazuaki
AU - Oya, Yasuhisa
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is performed with the support and under the auspices of the NIFS Collaboration Research program (NIFS19KUTR139) and the Collaborative Research Program of Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - The W (tungsten) samples were placed at Top, Equator and Bottom plasma facing walls of QUEST (Q-shu University Experiment with Steady-State-Spherical Tokamak) device and exposed to 754 shots of hydrogen plasma during 2017A/W (Autumn/Winter) campaign. Thereafter, their surface morphologies and chemical states were evaluated by TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope) and XPS (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy). The XPS results showed that a thick carbon layer about 3–18 nm has formed throughout the wall surface. Among them, the Bottom wall had the deposition layer with the thickness of 2 nm, which was thinner than the top wall, namely erosion-dominated. On the other hand, a thick C layer about 18 nm was deposited on the Equator wall. The additional 1 keV D2+ was implanted into these samples and the D (deuterium) retention enhancement was estimated. The D2 TDS (Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy) spectra for all the samples had two major desorption stages at 400 K and 650 K, namely the desorption of D trapped by irradiation damages and deposition layer. The erosion/deposition profile would be caused by wall position and plasma condition, like a current start-up experiment. The desorption temperature of H2 (hydrogen) was shifted toward higher temperature side compared to that exposed to previous plasma campaign (2016 A/W), suggesting that H was mainly accumulated in the deposition layer with forming C–H bonds.
AB - The W (tungsten) samples were placed at Top, Equator and Bottom plasma facing walls of QUEST (Q-shu University Experiment with Steady-State-Spherical Tokamak) device and exposed to 754 shots of hydrogen plasma during 2017A/W (Autumn/Winter) campaign. Thereafter, their surface morphologies and chemical states were evaluated by TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope) and XPS (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy). The XPS results showed that a thick carbon layer about 3–18 nm has formed throughout the wall surface. Among them, the Bottom wall had the deposition layer with the thickness of 2 nm, which was thinner than the top wall, namely erosion-dominated. On the other hand, a thick C layer about 18 nm was deposited on the Equator wall. The additional 1 keV D2+ was implanted into these samples and the D (deuterium) retention enhancement was estimated. The D2 TDS (Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy) spectra for all the samples had two major desorption stages at 400 K and 650 K, namely the desorption of D trapped by irradiation damages and deposition layer. The erosion/deposition profile would be caused by wall position and plasma condition, like a current start-up experiment. The desorption temperature of H2 (hydrogen) was shifted toward higher temperature side compared to that exposed to previous plasma campaign (2016 A/W), suggesting that H was mainly accumulated in the deposition layer with forming C–H bonds.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nme.2020.100856
DO - 10.1016/j.nme.2020.100856
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85098131680
SN - 2352-1791
VL - 26
JO - Nuclear Materials and Energy
JF - Nuclear Materials and Energy
M1 - 100856
ER -