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Hydrogen assisted vacancy formation in tungsten: A first-principles investigation
- Source :
- Journal of Nuclear Materials. 465:135-141
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2015.
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Abstract
- The effects of hydrogen induced vacancy formation in tungsten have been investigated with a first-principles method based on the density functional theory. Hydrogen is demonstrated to assist the formation of vacancy and such effect is enhanced with increasing of hydrogen concentration. Using the energy of a single tungsten atom for the bulk as the reference energy, a spontaneous vacancy formation in tungsten is observed when more than two hydrogen atoms are introduced. These results provide a good explanation for creation of super-abundant vacancies in tungsten and can contribute to understand the mechanism of hydrogen bubble formation.
- Subjects :
- Tungsten atom
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Materials science
Hydrogen
chemistry.chemical_element
Tungsten
Condensed Matter::Materials Science
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
chemistry
Chemical physics
Vacancy defect
Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters
General Materials Science
Density functional theory
Physics::Atomic Physics
Hydrogen bubble
Atomic physics
Hydrogen concentration
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00223115
- Volume :
- 465
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Nuclear Materials
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........fd0d8f255dea004cfba6f551515ad187