Isolation of Peaks in TDS Spectra of Deuterium from Ion Irradiated Tungsten

Interaction of deuterium with radiation defects in tungsten was studied by means of thermal desorption spectroscopy. The displacement damage in a recrystallized tungsten foil was produced by irradiation with 10 keV/D ions to the fluences in the range of 3–8×1019 D/m2 at room temperature. The resulted thermal desorption spectra consisted of three wide overlapping peaks. It was shown that annealing of the damaged sample at 550 K and subsequent implantation with 0.67 keV/D ions allows to isolate the peak corresponding to deuterium release from vacancies.