Helium-hydrogen synergistic effects on swelling in in-situ multiple-ion beams irradiated steels

• 作者: Haocheng Liu Jia Huang Liuxuan Cao Yue Su Zhiying Gao Pengfei Ma Songqin Xia Wei Ge Qingyuan Liu Shuang Zhao Yugang Wang Jinchi Huang Zhehui Zhou Pengfei Zheng Chenxu Wang
• 来源期刊: 中国物理B（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（8）
• 所属期刊栏目: SPECIAL TOPIC—Ion beam modification of materials and applications
• 页码范围: 91-98
• 页数: 8页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/abfcca

摘要

The development of reliable fusion energy is one of the most important challenges in this century.The accelerated degradation of structural materials in fusion reactors caused by neutron irradiation would cause severe problems.Due to the lack of suitable fusion neutron testing facilities,we have to rely on ion irradiation experiments to test candidate materials in fusion reactors.Moreover,fusion neutron irradiation effects are accompanied by the simultaneous transmutation production of helium and hydrogen.One important method to study the He-H synergistic effects in materials is multiple simultaneous ion beams (MSIB) irradiation that has been studied for decades.To date,there is no convincing conclusion on these He-H synergistic effects among these experiments.Recently,a multiple ion beam in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM)analysis facility was developed in Xiamen University (XIAMEN facility),which is the first triple beam system and the only in-running in-situ irradiation facility with TEM in China.In this work,we conducted the first high-temperature triple simultaneous ion beams irradiation experiment with TEM observation using the XIAMEN facility.The responses to in-situ triple-ion beams irradiation in austenitic steel 304L SS and ferritic/martensitic steel CLF-1 were studied and compared with the results in dual-and single-ion beam(s) irradiated steels.Synergistic effects were observed in MSIB irradiated steels.Helium was found to be critical for cavity formation,while hydrogen has strong synergistic effect on increasing swelling.