fusion power research, the plasma-facing material (or materials) (PFM) is any material used to construct the plasma-facing components (PFC), those components...

blistering, or embrittlement of the material. Tungsten is widely regarded as the optimal material for plasma-facing components in next-generation fusion...

as plasma-facing materials in such devices. This makes HIDRA one of only a very few fusion devices willing to run liquid lithium as a plasma-facing material...

manipulate ferroelectric domains on nanoscale dimensions Plasma-facing material, the material used to line the reactor vessel in a fusion power reactor...

burning plasmas are being actively studied. Development of new technologies in plasma diagnostics, real-time control, plasma-facing materials, high-power...

exposed sections of the plasma-facing inner wall of nuclear fusion reactors. Tungsten, as a plasma-facing component material, features exceptionally low...

particles of a solid material are ejected from its surface, after the material is itself bombarded by energetic particles of a plasma or gas. It occurs naturally...

demands on their insulators, as they must be an electrically insulating, plasma-facing vacuum component which can withstand both thermal and acoustic shocks...

from the magnetically confined plasma to dedicated plasma-facing components, thus spatially separating the region plasma-surface interactions from the...

radioactive due to neutrons impinging upon them. It is hoped that plasma facing materials will be developed so that wastes produced in this way will have...

and related materials processing varies from about 10−4 in typical capacitive discharges to as high as 5–10% in high-density inductive plasmas. Processing...

fusion reaction, overcoming the problem of structural damage to plasma-facing materials. The lithium in the mixture breeds tritium. In August 2023, General...

dusty plasma is a plasma containing micrometer (10−6) to nanometer (10−9) sized particles suspended in it. Dust particles are charged and the plasma and...

chamber to strike a target of the material that is to be deposited. This material is vaporized from the target (in a plasma plume) which deposits it as a...

Fusion For Energy agency. When the ITER tokamak is in operation, the plasma-facing units endure heat spikes as high as 20 megawatts per square metre, which...

issues for commercial fusion power development is the choice of material for the plasma-facing portions of the reactor vessel, also known as the first wall...

stellarators, is understanding the physics of the plasma boundary and its interactions with plasma-facing components (PFCs), typically in the form of divertors...

the solar wind as it is strongly affected by the magnetic field of the plasma of the solar wind. The ion tail follows the magnetic field lines rather...

acceleration Plasma channel Plasma cleaning Plasma containment Plasma cosmology Plasma diagnostics Plasma facing material Plasma fountain Plasma gasification...

data on the plasma-facing materials degradation under neutron irradiation during the life-time of a fusion reactor. The main source of materials degradation...

"inflated" by plasma originating from the Sun, known as the solar wind. Outside the heliosphere, this solar plasma gives way to the interstellar plasma permeating...

welding Plasma arc welding, also called powder plasma welding Thermal spraying Cold polymer compounds Laser cladding Hardpaint Commonly applied materials include...

Thermoelectric materials show the thermoelectric effect in a strong or convenient form. The thermoelectric effect refers to phenomena by which either...

key problem was confining such a plasma; no material container could withstand those temperatures. But because plasmas are electrically conductive, they...

spacecraft propulsion where an onboard magnetic field source interacts with a plasma wind (e.g., the solar wind) to form an artificial magnetosphere (similar...

is where the modified compounds leave. The trans face is usually facing the plasma membrane, which is where most of the substances the Golgi apparatus...

a plasma railgun, the armature and ejected projectile consists of plasma, or hot, ionized, gas-like particles, instead of a solid slug of material. MARAUDER...

Steady State Superconducting Tokamak) is a plasma confinement experimental device in the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), an autonomous research institute...

opposite-facing layers of uniformly arranged phospholipids. Each phospholipid is made of one phosphate head and two fatty acid tails. The plasma membrane...

electron density, and electric potential of a plasma. It works by inserting one or more electrodes into a plasma, with a constant or time-varying electric...