Deposition and qualification of tungsten coatings produced by plasma deposition in WF6 precursor gas
Deposition and qualification of tungsten coatings produced by plasma deposition in WF6 precursor gas
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WF6 前体气体中等离子沉积钨涂层的沉积和鉴定
DOI:
10.1088/0031-8949/2011/t145/014030
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发表时间:
2011
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A. Sanyasi
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作者:
V. Philipps;D. Kogut;H. Esser;G. Sergienko;M. Zlobinski;J. Coenen;S. Brezinsek;F. Nachtrodt;A. Sanyasi
A strong R&D programme is at present ongoing to qualify tungsten as the plasma-facing material in ITER and possible future devices. Since the use of solid W tiles poses a number of problems, mainly with respect to increased forces, weight and costs, W coatings on graphite wall tiles are often used instead. These coatings are deposited in a special deposition apparatus, while in situ plasma-assisted techniques are widely used for low-Z wall coatings such as, for example, in carbonization, boronization or siliconization. To develop a similar procedure for the in situ coating of plasma-facing materials with tungsten, a deposition technique based on a mixture of 95% H2 and 5% WF6 was analysed. Tungsten coatings up to 0.5 μm have been deposited in laboratory experiments and the coatings were characterized by a number of methods. The W coatings deposited on fine-grain graphite have a dense structure with a rough surface and are free of fluorine. The coatings show excellent high-heat-flux resistance with no failures in transient heat flux tests up to 600–700 MW m−2 for 1 ms.