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Title: HELIUM EFFECTS ON DISPLACEMENT CASCADE IN TUNGSTEN

Abstract

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to investigate He effects on displacement cascades in W. Helium content, proportion of interstitial and substitutional He and temperature were varied to reveal the various effects. The effect of interstitial He on the number of self-interstitial atoms (SIAs) produced during cascade damage appears to be insignificant. However, interstitial He tends to fill a vacancy (V). Nevertheless, this process is less favorable than SIA-V recombination particularly when excess SIAs are present before a cascade. The efficiency of He filling and SIA-V recombination increases as temperature increases due to increased point defect mobility. Likewise, substitutional He is more susceptible to displacement during a collision cascade than W. This susceptibility increases towards higher temperatures. Consequently, the number of surviving V is governed by the interplay between displaced substitutional He and SIA-V recombination. The temperature dependence of these processes results in a minimum number of V reached at an intermediate temperature.

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Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1122325
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-97272
AT6020100
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Book
Resource Relation:
Related Information: Fusion Materials Semiannual Progress Report for the Period Ending June 30, 2013, 54; DOE-ER-0313/54:223-227
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
tungsten; radiation; damage; helium; fusion

Citation Formats

Setyawan, Wahyu, Nandipati, Giridhar, Roche, Kenneth J., Heinisch, Howard L., Kurtz, Richard J., and Wirth, Brian D. HELIUM EFFECTS ON DISPLACEMENT CASCADE IN TUNGSTEN. United States: N. p., 2013. Web.
Setyawan, Wahyu, Nandipati, Giridhar, Roche, Kenneth J., Heinisch, Howard L., Kurtz, Richard J., & Wirth, Brian D. HELIUM EFFECTS ON DISPLACEMENT CASCADE IN TUNGSTEN. United States.
Setyawan, Wahyu, Nandipati, Giridhar, Roche, Kenneth J., Heinisch, Howard L., Kurtz, Richard J., and Wirth, Brian D. 2013. "HELIUM EFFECTS ON DISPLACEMENT CASCADE IN TUNGSTEN". United States.
@article{osti_1122325,
title = {HELIUM EFFECTS ON DISPLACEMENT CASCADE IN TUNGSTEN},
author = {Setyawan, Wahyu and Nandipati, Giridhar and Roche, Kenneth J. and Heinisch, Howard L. and Kurtz, Richard J. and Wirth, Brian D.},
abstractNote = {Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to investigate He effects on displacement cascades in W. Helium content, proportion of interstitial and substitutional He and temperature were varied to reveal the various effects. The effect of interstitial He on the number of self-interstitial atoms (SIAs) produced during cascade damage appears to be insignificant. However, interstitial He tends to fill a vacancy (V). Nevertheless, this process is less favorable than SIA-V recombination particularly when excess SIAs are present before a cascade. The efficiency of He filling and SIA-V recombination increases as temperature increases due to increased point defect mobility. Likewise, substitutional He is more susceptible to displacement during a collision cascade than W. This susceptibility increases towards higher temperatures. Consequently, the number of surviving V is governed by the interplay between displaced substitutional He and SIA-V recombination. The temperature dependence of these processes results in a minimum number of V reached at an intermediate temperature.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
month = {Mon Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2013}
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