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KFM: Fachverband Kristalline Festkörper und deren Mikrostruktur

KFM 5: Poster Session KFM

KFM 5.2: Poster

Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 16:00–17:00, P

Application of CVD Diamond disks for ECRH systems of fusion reactors — •Sabine Schreck, Gaetano Aiello, Andreas Meier, Theo Scherer, and Dirk Strauss — Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Materials, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany

In fusion reactors, Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive (EC H&CD) systems are used for plasma heating and stabilization. Key components of these systems are diamond windows, which consist of a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond disk (p.c.) joined into a metallic housing. Such windows, employed as gyrotron- or torus windows, allow transmission of high power microwave beams and serve as vacuum boundaries. A very low dielectric loss and a sufficient mechanical stability is thus required.

The ITER EC torus window consists of a diamond disk with a diameter of 70mm and a thickness of 1.11mm (resonance thickness for 170GHz). The window serves also as confinement barrier for tritium and is classified as "Protection Important Component". A specific test program is required for its qualification, including prototypical activities. For future fusion machines like DEMO, most likely broadband window solutions as the double disk window or the Brewster window will come into operations. This implies also new requirements for the disks, e.g. large diameters of minimum 180mm for the inclined Brewster-angle disk for a typical aperture of 63.5mm.