Tungsten, the primary material under consideration as the divertor material in magnetic-
confinement nuclear fusion reactors, has been known for the last decade to form'fuzz'—a …

Tungsten will be used as the plasma-facing divertor material in the International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion reactor. Under high temperatures and …

For the purposes of long-term use of tungsten divertor walls, the formation process of the
fuzzy tungsten nanostructure induced by exposure to the helium plasma was studied. In the …

Based on first-principles calculations, the vacancy and self-interstitial formation energy in
bcc-W are 3.19 eV and 9.97 eV. Binding energy between the dumbbell interstitials can be up …

The generation of tungsten fuzzy nanostructure by exposure to helium plasma is one of the
important problems for the use of tungsten material as divertor plates in nuclear fusion …

Isolated regions of nano-tendril bundles (NTBs) have been grown on tungsten surfaces
exposed to low-pressure direct-current helium plasma discharges operating with the …

The retention of radioactive tritium in the reactor wall is a safety issue and should be kept to
a minimum. We investigated the influence of helium, argon, neon and nitrogen as plasma …

Several metal surfaces, such as titanium, aluminum and copper, were exposed to highfluxes
(in the range of 1023m− 2s− 1) of low energy (< 100 eV) Helium (He) ions. The surfaces …

We have investigated the effects of noble gas elements (helium, neon, argon and krypton)
on the dissolution and accumulation behavior of hydrogen (H) in tungsten (W) using a first …

Using first-principles calculations, we have determined key properties of Ar and Ne in bcc W
that relate to the possible bubble formation of implanted Ar and Ne atoms. The most stable …