High Transient-Thermal-Shock Resistant Nanochannel Tungsten Films

Tao Cheng; Wenjing Qin; Youyun Lian; Xiang Liu; Jun Tang; Guangxu Cai; Shijian Zhang; Xiaoyun Le; Changzhong Jiang; Feng Ren

doi:10.3390/nano11102663

Nanomaterials (Oct 2021)

High Transient-Thermal-Shock Resistant Nanochannel Tungsten Films

Tao Cheng,
Wenjing Qin,
Youyun Lian,
Xiang Liu,
Jun Tang,
Guangxu Cai,
Shijian Zhang,
Xiaoyun Le,
Changzhong Jiang,
Feng Ren

Affiliations

Tao Cheng: School of Physics and Technology, Center for Ion Beam Application, Hubei Nuclear Solid Physics Key Laboratory and MOE Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-Structures, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Wenjing Qin: School of Physics and Technology, Center for Ion Beam Application, Hubei Nuclear Solid Physics Key Laboratory and MOE Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-Structures, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Youyun Lian: Fusion Reactor Design & Material Division, Southwestern Institute of Physics, Chengdu 610041, China
Xiang Liu: Fusion Reactor Design & Material Division, Southwestern Institute of Physics, Chengdu 610041, China
Jun Tang: School of Physics and Technology, Center for Ion Beam Application, Hubei Nuclear Solid Physics Key Laboratory and MOE Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-Structures, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Guangxu Cai: School of Physics and Technology, Center for Ion Beam Application, Hubei Nuclear Solid Physics Key Laboratory and MOE Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-Structures, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Shijian Zhang: School of Physics, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Xiaoyun Le: School of Physics, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Changzhong Jiang: School of Physics and Technology, Center for Ion Beam Application, Hubei Nuclear Solid Physics Key Laboratory and MOE Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-Structures, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Feng Ren: School of Physics and Technology, Center for Ion Beam Application, Hubei Nuclear Solid Physics Key Laboratory and MOE Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-Structures, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11102663
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 10
p. 2663

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Developing high-performance tungsten plasma-facing materials for fusion reactors is an urgent task. In this paper, novel nanochannel structural W films prepared by magnetron sputtering deposition were irradiated using a high-power pulsed electron beam or ion beam to study their edge-localized modes, such as transient thermal shock resistance. Under electron beam irradiation, a 1 μm thick nanochannel W film with 150 watt power showed a higher absorbed power density related cracking threshold (0.28–0.43 GW/m2) than the commercial bulk W (0.16–0.28 GW/m2) at room temperature. With ion beam irradiation with an energy density of 1 J/cm2 for different pulses, the bulk W displayed many large cracks with the increase of pulse number, while only micro-crack networks with a width of tens of nanometers were found in the nanochannel W film. For the mechanism of the high resistance of nanochannel W films to transient thermal shock, a residual stress analysis was made by Grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXRD), and the results showed that the irradiated nanochannel W films had a much lower stress than that of the irradiated bulk W, which indicates that the nanochannel structure can release more stress, due to its special nanochannel structure and ability for the annihilation of irradiation induced defects.

Published in Nanomaterials

ISSN: 2079-4991 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Science: Chemistry
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nanomaterials

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