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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2020
National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Llc, Albuquerque, NM (US);
William R. Wampler, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Barney L. Doyle, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Clark S. Snow, Albuquerque, NM (US);
National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Abstract
A novel thin-film target can the life of tritium targets for the production of 14 MeV neutrons by theH(H,n)He nuclear reaction while using only a small fraction of the amount of tritium compared to a standard thick-film target. With the thin-film target, the incident deuterium is implanted through the front tritide film into the underlying substrate material. A thin permeation barrier layer between the tritide film and substrate reduces the rate of tritium loss from the tritide film. As an example, good thin-film target performance was achieved using W and Fe for the barrier and substrate materials, respectively.