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Beryllium

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Alpha-Nickel Hydroxide Coating of Metallic Nickel for Enhanced Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution

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Micro ion beam analysis for the erosion of beryllium marker tiles in a tokamak limiter

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Joan Decker, Cristian Galperti, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Mikhail Maslov, Federico Nespoli, Yao Zhou, David Pfefferlé, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Andrea Scarabosio, Gilles Arnoux, Bernhard Sieglin, Otto Asunta

Beryllium limiter marker tiles were exposed to plasma in the Joint European Torus to diagnose the erosion of main chamber wall materials. A limiter marker tile consists of a beryllium coating layer (7-9 mu m) on the top of bulk beryllium, with a nickel int ...

2019

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