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Title: Grain orientations and grain boundaries in tungsten nonotendril fuzz grown under divertor-like conditions

Abstract

We grew nanotendril “fuzz” on tungsten via plasma exposure and performed transmission Kikuchi diffraction (tKD) in scanning electron microscopy of isolated nanotendrils. 900 °C, 1023 He/m2sec, 4 × 1026 He/m2 exposure of tungsten produced a deep and fully developed nanotendril mat. tKD of isolated nanotendrils indicated that there was no preferred crystallographic direction oriented along the long axes of the tendrils, and the grain boundary character showed slightly preferential orientations. In conclusion, tendril growth is sufficiently non-equilibrium to prevent any preference of growth direction to manifest measurably, and that new high-angle boundaries (with new grains and grain-growth axes) nucleate randomly along the tendrils during growth.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [2]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Univ. of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
OSTI Identifier:
1326512
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1397958
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; FG02-07ER54912
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scripta Materialia
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 127; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-6462
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; transmission Kikuchi diffraction; plasma simulation; fusion energy; fusion; tungsten

Citation Formats

Parish, Chad M., Wang, Kun, Doerner, Russel P., and Baldwin, Matthew J. Grain orientations and grain boundaries in tungsten nonotendril fuzz grown under divertor-like conditions. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2016.09.018.
Parish, Chad M., Wang, Kun, Doerner, Russel P., & Baldwin, Matthew J. Grain orientations and grain boundaries in tungsten nonotendril fuzz grown under divertor-like conditions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2016.09.018
Parish, Chad M., Wang, Kun, Doerner, Russel P., and Baldwin, Matthew J. Mon . "Grain orientations and grain boundaries in tungsten nonotendril fuzz grown under divertor-like conditions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2016.09.018. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1326512.
@article{osti_1326512,
title = {Grain orientations and grain boundaries in tungsten nonotendril fuzz grown under divertor-like conditions},
author = {Parish, Chad M. and Wang, Kun and Doerner, Russel P. and Baldwin, Matthew J.},
abstractNote = {We grew nanotendril “fuzz” on tungsten via plasma exposure and performed transmission Kikuchi diffraction (tKD) in scanning electron microscopy of isolated nanotendrils. 900 °C, 1023 He/m2sec, 4 × 1026 He/m2 exposure of tungsten produced a deep and fully developed nanotendril mat. tKD of isolated nanotendrils indicated that there was no preferred crystallographic direction oriented along the long axes of the tendrils, and the grain boundary character showed slightly preferential orientations. In conclusion, tendril growth is sufficiently non-equilibrium to prevent any preference of growth direction to manifest measurably, and that new high-angle boundaries (with new grains and grain-growth axes) nucleate randomly along the tendrils during growth.},
doi = {10.1016/j.scriptamat.2016.09.018},
journal = {Scripta Materialia},
number = C,
volume = 127,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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