Thermal desorption behavior of deuterium for 6 MeV Fe ion irradiated W with various damage concentrations

Abstract W samples were irradiated at 300 K with 6 MeV Fe ion with damage concentrations in the range from 0.0003 to 1.0 displacements per atom (dpa) and then implanted at 300 K with 500 eV D ions to a fluence of 5 × 10 21  D/m 2 . Deuterium retention in the damaged samples was examined in situ by thermal desorption spectrometry (TDS). Simulation of the TDS spectra was performed using the Hydrogen Isotope Diffusion and Trapping (HIDT) simulation code to reveal the binding energies for deuterium captured by the ion-induced defects. It has been shown that the deuterium TDS spectra consist of two or three peaks (depending on the damage concentration) at about 400, 600 and 800 K, and can be simulated by the HIDT simulation code with the use of hydrogen-trap binding energies of 0.65, 1.25, and 1.55 eV.