Indexed by:Journal Article

First Author:Xiao, Qingmei

Correspondence Author:Ding, HB (reprint author), Dalian Univ Technol, Sch Phys & Opt Elect Technol, Key Lab Mat Modificat Laser Ion & Electron Beams, Chinese Minist Educ, Dalian 116024, Peoples R China.

Co-author:Duan, Xuru,Ding, Hongbin,Zhou, Yan,Yan, Longwen,Zhang, Lei,Feng, Chunlei,Li, Cong,Hai, Ran

Date of Publication:2014-05-01

Journal:REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Included Journals:PubMed、EI、SCIE

Document Type:J

Volume:85

Issue:5

Page Number:053511

ISSN:0034-6748

Summary:A laser ablation microprobe time-of-flight mass spectroscopy (LAM-TOF-MS) system with high spatial resolution, similar to 20 nm in depth and similar to 500 mu m or better on the surface, is developed to analyze the composition distributions of deposition layers on the first wall materials or first mirrors in tokamak. The LAM-TOF-MS system consists of a laser ablation microprobe combined with a TOF-MS and a data acquisition system based on a LabVIEW program software package. Laser induced ablation combined with TOF-MS is an attractive method to analyze the depth profile of deposited layer with successive laser shots, therefore, it can provide information for composition reconstruction of the plasma wall interaction process. In this work, we demonstrate that the LAM-TOF-MS system is capable of characterizing the depth profile as well as mapping 2D composition of deposited film on the molybdenum first mirror retrieved from HL-2A tokamak, with particular emphasis on some of the species produced during the ablation process. The presented LAM-TOF-MS system provides not only the 3D characterization of deposition but also the removal efficiency of species of concern. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.