杂质离子对等离子体边界参量的影响

采用一维流体模型研究了含有杂质离子的等离子体与器壁材料相互作用给边界等离子体参量带来的影响.通过数值模拟,研究了分别选用碳和钨作为器壁材料时,器壁温度不同情形下热发射产生的电子对等离子体器壁电势、电场强度、热发射电子流以及沉积器壁离子动能流的影响.研究结果发现,当面向等离子体材料表面温度升高时,器壁电势和热发射产生的电流将增加,器壁电场强度和离子沉积器壁动能流则会减小,并且钨作为器壁材料要比碳作为器壁材料对于等离子体边界参量影响更明显.此外,研究了钨作为器壁材料时,碳杂质离子（浓度和电荷数）对等离子体器壁参量的影响.     

偏滤器等离子体中杂质对钨壁材料的侵蚀模拟研究

偏滤器是托卡马克中与等离子体直接接触的部件,为了保证装置的寿命,需要尽可能地减小等离子体对偏滤器靶板的侵蚀.本文用粒子模拟的方法研究了不同等离子体温度情况下碳和铍两种杂质离子对钨偏滤器侵蚀速率的影响.模拟首先得到稳定的鞘层结构、入射到靶板的离子流和能流密度,并通过统计获得了入射离子的能量和角度分布,最终根据这些物理参量,采用经验公式计算出钨靶板的侵蚀速率.研究表明,在等离子体温度不太高的情况下,钨靶板的热侵蚀几乎不起作用,而由于杂质离子对钨的物理溅射阈值较低,并且会通过鞘层加速获得能量,因此其对钨壁材料的物理溅射是导致靶板侵蚀的主要原因,另外靶板材料的侵蚀速率随着等离子体温度升高以及杂质含量增大而急剧增大.     

Spectrum of vibrational frequencies of crystalline tungsten at temperatures of 293 and 2400 K

The slow neutron inelastic scattering spectra for a refractory (T _melt = 3680 K) Group VI transition metal of the Periodic Table, namely, tungsten, were measured for the first time in the range from room temperature to 2400 K. Measurements of the neutron scattering spectra of tungsten were performed on a DIN-2PI time-of-flight spectrometer installed at the IBR-2 reactor (Dubna, Russia). The sample was heated in a TS3000 K high-temperature thermostat. The spectrum of vibrational frequencies of the crystal lattice of tungsten at temperatures of 293 and 2400 K was determined from the measured neutron scattering spectra by the iterative method. A softening of the frequency spectrum of tungsten was observed with increasing temperature. This was explained by the increasing role of vibrational anharmonicity effects at high temperatures. The experimental results were compared with model calculations of the frequency spectrum of tungsten.     

Characterisation of laser-produced tungsten plasma using optical spectroscopy method

This paper describes results of spectroscopic investigation of laser-produced tungsten plasma. The laser intensity on the target surface reached up to 30 GW/cm² depending on the focusing conditions. Optical spectra emitted from plasma plumes which were formed under vacuum conditions in front of the tungsten target due to the interaction of Nd-YAG laser pulses (1.06 μm, 0.5 J), were characterised by means of an optical spectrometer (λ/Δλ= 900) in the wavelength range from 300 to 1100 nm. The spectra were recorded automatically with the use of a CCD detector with exposition time varied from 100 ns to 50 ms. On the basis of WI and WII lines it was possible to estimate electron temperature and electron density which corresponded to the expansion phase of the plasma. T_e and N_e were measured as 1.1 eV and 8×10¹⁶ cm^-3, respectively. The spectra collected by the ion energy analyser showed that the plasma included tungsten ions up to 6+ ion charge. Signals from the ion collector allowed to estimate the average value of ion energy of tungsten as 4.6 keV. Basing on this value the electron temperature corresponding to the initial stage of the plasma formation was estimated to be about 320 eV. Optical microscope investigation showed that laser irradiation caused structural changes on the surface of the target.     

Effect of the emitter temperature and emitter atom ionization potential on field evaporation

The field evaporation of nickel, nichrome alloy, and tungsten carbide at different temperatures is studied with a time-of-flight atomic probe and a field emission microscope. The charge of evaporating ions does not depend on the emitter temperature: it decreases with decreasing evaporating field F _ev. If F _ev does not vary with temperature, so does the charge of the ions. In the case of multicomponent emitters with different ionization potentials of the components, the components evaporate at the same values of F _ev in the form of atoms and ionized clusters. The reason for such behavior is that the initial evaporation of the easily ionizable component decreases the binding energy of harder-to-ionize ones to the point where they can evaporate at the same field.     

Layer-by-layer analysis of charge state distribution of field evaporated ions from the W(011) plane

A charge state distribution of the field evaporated ions is layer-by-layer analyzed in a W(011) plane by using an atom-probe field ion microscope. A specimen temperature is varied from ～ 20 to ～ 250 K. The results indicate that at any temperature, the surface tungsten atoms field evaporate as triply and quadruply ions from the (011) plane, and the quadruply charged ions are always detected during the final collapse of the plane. They are also discussed on the basis of the post-ionization model.     

The SIMS spectrum of the O-W(100) chemisorption system

The adsorption of oxygen on clean W(100) has been studied with static mode SIMS. Studies were made at different temperatures and oxygen exposures under stringent vacuum conditions. Both the positive and negative secondary ion spectra were investigated by using low energy (500 eV) and low current density Ne⁺ primary ions, so that the adsorbed layer was not perturbed. The correlations among the secondary ions O⁺, O^? and various tungsten oxide ions showed qualitative changes at different stages of chemisorption. All these features corresponded very well to the structural and adsorption site changes observed with LEED and other techniques. This work shows that SIMS can give structural and chemical information of chemisorbed layers in the submonolayer range.     

热辐射谱的多道采集及最小二乘法温度解析

本文报道一种以CCD光学多道分析器采集热辐射谱，用最小二乘法计算拟合普朗克黑体辐射曲线，从而解析获得辐射温度的新方法。使用上述方法对钨带灯辐射谱进行了采集解析，温度计算结果与计量检定值误差小于1％。讨论了该测试方法的优越性。     

Singly charged tungsten and tantalum ions observed during high-temperature field evaporation

High-temperature field evaporation of tungsten and tantalum emitters in the temperature range from room temperature to 2500 K is studied using a static magnetic mass spectrometer equipped with a field source of ions. At room temperature, triply charged W³⁺ and Ta³⁺ ions alone are observed in the mass spectra. However, as the emitter temperature grows, the charge of the ions decreases. At T ≈ 1000 K, doubly charged W²⁺ and Ta²⁺ ions dominate in the spectra, and singly charged W⁺ and Ta⁺ ions appear in the temperature range 1900 < T < 2500 K. The evaporation rate of the singly charged ions is one to two orders of magnitude lower than the evaporation rate of the doubly charged particles. The energy parameters of field evaporation for differently charged tungsten ions are found.     

On the low temperature anomalies in the properties of the electrochemical interface. A non-local free-energy density functional approach

The restricted primitive model has proved to be a useful system to describe the behaviour of electrical double layers. In this model, ions are represented by charged hard spheres of equal diameter and the solvent is represented by a uniform dielectric constant. Classical Gouy-Chapman's theory, and its modification by Stern, always predicts a monotonically decreasing capacitance for this system when the fluid's temperature is increased. Similar results are given by the mean spherical approximation. These predictions are in qualitative agreement with experiment for dissolved electrolytes, but disagree with molten salt experiments where capacitance increases with temperature. Additionally, recent Monte Carlo (MC) simulations for this model show that at very low temperatures, the capacitance of the interface, near its point of zero charge, increases with increasing temperature for both diluted and highly concentrated salts. In this work we apply a particular model of a non-local free-energy density functional theory to study the capacitance of the electrical interface. In our calculations we considered symmetrical 1:1 systems for both diluted electrolytes and highly concentrated salts at very low electrode surface charge. Density functional theory agrees very well with MC results for capacitance at high temperature, but fails to predict a positive slope for this property at low temperatures. Comparison of theoretical density profiles with MC results allows the exploration of possible causes of failure.     

金等离子体中类Ni和类Ga离子跃迁子阵强度比研究

用Cowan 的原子结构从头算程序和SOSA模型计算各阶电离的金离子的能级结构和跃迁过程,在简化的碰撞辐射模型下求解能级布居数方程,计算了给定密度、不同电子温度下的金等离子体的理论合成谱.研究了类Ni和类Ga离子之间的共振线的强度比随电子温度的变化规律,利用这一变化规律可以为等离子体诊断提供辅助的方法.     

Laser plasma acceleration of quasi-monoenergetic beams of light multicharged ions

Experimental results on the spectra of residual impurity ions from a plasma created on the surface of a tungsten target that is irradiated by a femtosecond laser pulse and is subjected to preliminary pulsed laser cleaning are reported. It is shown that deep modulation corresponding to the formation of a quasi-monoenergetic ion beam appears in the energy spectra of protons and light multicharged carbon ions in this case. The position of a “dip” at the scale of velocities closely correlates with the position of the front of heavier ions.     

Efficiency of Tungsten Dust Collection of Different Types of Dust Particles by Electrostatic Probe

Formation of dust particles and clusters is observed in almost every modern thermonuclear facility. Accumulation of dust in the next generation thermonuclear installations can dramatically affect the plasma parameters and lead to the accumulation of unacceptably large amounts of tritium. Experiments on collection of dust particles by a model of electrostatic probe developed for collection of metallic dust at ITER are described in the article. Experiments on the generation of tungsten dust consisting of flakes formed during the destruction of tungsten layers formed on the walls of the plasma chamber sputtered from the surface of the tungsten target by plasma ions were conducted. The nature of dust degassing at elevated temperatures and the behavior of dust in an electric field were studied. The results obtained are compared with the results of the experiments with dust consisting of crystal particles of simple geometric shapes. The effectiveness of collection of both types of dust using the model of an electrostatic probe is determined.     

Ionization Potential Depression in Hot Dense Plasmas Through a Pure Classical Model

The ionization potential of an ion embedded in a plasma, lowered due to the whole of the charged particles (ions and electrons) interacting with this ion, is the so‐called plasma effect. A numerical plasma model based on classical molecular dynamics has been developed recently. It is capable to describe a neutral plasma at equilibrium involving ions of various charge states of the same atom together with electrons. This code is used here to investigate the ionization potential depression (IPD). The study of the IPD is illustrated and discussed for aluminum plasmas at mid and solid density and electron temperatures varying from 50eV to 190eV. The method relies on a sampling of the total potential energy of the electron located at an ion being ionized. The potential energy of such electron results from all of the interacting charged particles interacting with it. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

M带高能光子对发射谱诊断辐射场温度的影响

在稳态近似下通过求解速率方程分别计算了有无M带高能光子存在下,不同温度密度下Cl等离子体的离化度分布以及发射谱,研究了高能光子对等离子体发射谱的影响。研究发现:腔内混有的少量M带高能光子几乎不影响等离子体中重要的离化度分布,但是会激发或者电离各种离子的内壳层电子,从而对发射谱产生重要的影响。因此有M带高能光子存在时,用发射谱诊断等离子体温度时需要同时考虑温度、密度和M带高能光子对发射谱的影响。     

Formation of fast multicharged heavy ions under the action of a superintense femtosecond laser pulse on the cleaned surface of a target

It is found that the mean charge of tungsten ions in a solid tungsten target cleaned from the surface layer of hydrocarbon and oxide compounds and exposed to femtosecond laser radiation with an intensity exceeding 10¹⁶ W/cm² attains 22+, while the maximum charge is 29+. The maximum energy of such ions approaches 1 MeV. The corresponding values obtained on a dirty target with the same laser pulse parameters constitute 3+, 5+, and 150 keV. The results of numerical simulation show that such a large maximum charge of ions can be attained owing to the emergence of an electrostatic ambipolar field at the sharp boundary between the plasma and vacuum. The main mechanism of ionization of ions with maximum charges is apparently impact ionization in the presence of an external quasi-static field. In addition, direct above-threshold ionization by this field can also play a significant role. It is also shown that heavy ions in a clean target are accelerated by hot electrons. This leads to the formation of high-energy ions. The effect of recombination on the charge of the ions being detected is analyzed in detail.     

He 离子注入引起的高纯钨硬化

完成了不同注量或温度下100 keV 的He 离子注入高纯钨的实验,并利用纳米压痕技术测量了材料的微观力学性能。所有注入样品的纳米硬度值都高于未注入样品的纳米硬度值。对于室温注入样品,随着注量的增加,样品抗弹性变形能力下降;当注量不高于5x1017 ions/cm2 时,钨的纳米硬度峰值随着注量的增加而增加;注量为1x1018 ions/cm2 的钨样品的纳米硬度峰值反而降低。高温注入样品的抗弹性变形能力优于室温注入样品的抗弹性变形能力;随着注入温度的增加,样品的平均纳米硬度值和弹性模量略有下降。分析讨论了He 注入钨硬化和抗弹性形变能力降低的可能原因。Tungsten has been selected as divertor materials in fusion reactors because of its high thermal conductivity,high melting point, low expansion coefficient and high threshold energy for sputtering etc. The paper presents the hardening behaviour of high pure tungsten by 100 keV He+ with different fluences from 5x1016 ions/cm2 to 1x1018ions/cm2 at room temperature, and with fluence of 1x1018 ions/cm2 at higher temperatures (400, 600 and 800 °C). The microscopic mechanical properties of these samples were investigated by nano-indentation technology. The results show that all of the implanted samples harden obviously. The reason for hardening may be that defects of interstitial dislocation loops or dense helium bubbles etc induced by helium implantation obstacle the movement of dislocation. The peak nanohardness of the samples increased with the fluences increasing when the fluence is not more than 5x1017 ions/cm2, while the nano-hardness value of the implanted sample with the fluence of 1x1018 ions/cm2 decreases and the nano-hardness changes little in the region of 50 nm to 200 nm from surface. For all the implanted samples with 1x1018 ions/cm2 at higher temperatures, their nano-hardness values are similar, but show a trend of decrease with increasing temperature.The reason may be the decrease of the defects’ density during implantation at higher temperatures. In addition, the capability of resisting deformation for the implanted tungsten reduces with increasing fluence and increases a little at higher temperatures.     

Ion Charge Separation in a Multi‐Species Plasma Flowing through a Magnetic Transport System

Energy spectra of ions of various charged states at different cross‐section of a titanium plasma flow produced with a dc vacuum arc were studied. It was established that ions with different charges states were spatially separated during their travel through a plasma transport system based on a curved magnetic field. Ions with greater charge states were concentrated in the inner part of the curved plasma flow, i.e. closer to the centre of curvature of the field lines, so that the average charge state of ions in this area was higher than that at the outer part of the flow. A computer simulation of guiding a multi‐species plasma flow by a curved magnetic field qualitatively agreed with the experimental data. (© 2014 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Subthreshold sputtering at high temperatures

The sputtering of tungsten from a target at a temperature of 1470 K during irradiation by 5-eV deuterium ions in a steady-state dense plasma is discovered. The literature values of the threshold for the sputtering of tungsten by deuterium ions are 160–200 eV. The tungsten sputtering coefficient measured by the loss of weight is found to be 1.5×10^?4 atom/ion at a deuterium ion energy of 5 eV. Previously, such a sputtering coefficient was usually observed at energies of 250 eV. The sputtering is accompanied by a change in the target surface relief, i.e., by the etching of the grain boundaries and the formation of a wavy structure on the tungsten surface. The subthreshold sputtering at a high temperature is explained by the possible sputtering of adsorbed tungsten atoms that are released from the traps around the interstitial atoms and come to the target surface from the space between the grains. The wavy structure on the surface results from the merging of adsorbed atoms into ordered clusters.