Transmission electron microscopy of redeposition layers on graphite tiles used for open divertor armor of JT-60

Goto, Yoshitaka*; Arai, Takashi; Yagyu, Junichi; Masaki, Kei; Kodama, Kozo; Miya, Naoyuki

Journal of Nuclear Materials, 329-333(1), p.840 - 844, 2004/08

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2004.04.314

TEM and Selected Area Diffraction (SAD) were made on nm-structures of redeposition layers on graphite tiles used in the lower-X-point divertor of JT-60. The tiles were used in the 1988 experimental campaign in which 300 divertor discharges and 1500 limiter discharges were made. TEM observations were made at poloidal and/or toroidal sections at two positions on the inboard side of the inner-separatrix strike point. Layer structures in 0-6micron depths were correlated to the last 40-shots in the campaign. Columnar structures corresponded to divertor discharges of additional heating power below 10MW. Lamellar structures were due to limiter discharges or to the higher power divertor discharges. Carbon-Mo, Ti or carbon-Ni, Fe, Cr, Ti codeposition layers were ascribed to disruptive shots. From analyses on poloidal orientation of the column axes and graphene sheets composing columns, the observed columnar structures were ascribed to both low adatom-migration due to the low deposition temperatures and also to self-shadowing effects due to inclined incidence of carbon impurity ions.