Thesis
Advanced materials for plasma facing components in fusion devices
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This thesis describes the design, manufacture and characterisation of thick vacuum plasma sprayed tungsten (W) coatings on steel substrates. Fusion is a potentially clean, sustainable, energy source in which nuclear energy is generated via the release of internal energy from nuclei. In order to fuse nuclei the Coulomb barrier must be breached - requiring extreme temperatures or pressures – akin to creating a ‘star in a box’. Tungsten is a promising candidate material for future fusion reac...
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Authors
Contributors
+ Grant, P
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Materials
Role:
Supervisor
+ Matthews, G
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Materials
Role:
Sponsor
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2009
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:4027
- Deposit date:
- 2010-07-23
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- Copyright holder:
- Gareth James Thomas
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- Some figures have been removed from the pdf version of this thesis for copyright reasons.
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