Formation and mitigation of fiberform nanostructured tungsten by helium and sub-ms laser pulse irradiations

Plasma Devices and Operations

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-173

  Kajita, Shin ^a   Sakaguchi, Wataru ^a   Ohno, Noriyasu ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Helium irradiation; In vessel Mirror material; Laser irradiation; Optical reflectivity; Tungsten

Indexed keywords

HELIUM IRRADIATION; HELIUM PLASMAS; IN-VESSEL MIRROR MATERIAL; IRRADIATED SURFACE; LASER IRRADIATION; LASER IRRADIATIONS; LINEAR PLASMA; MS LASER; NAGDIS-II; NANO-STRUCTURED; OPTICAL REFLECTIVITY; RECOVERY RATE;

HELIUM; IRRADIATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PLASMAS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; REFLECTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES; TUNGSTEN;

MIRRORS;

EID: 70349976195     PISSN: 10519998     EISSN: 10294929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10519990902884563     Document Type: Conference Paper

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