29th Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2016)

Session

I4.1 R. Vila

Sep 8, 2016, 8:30 AM

Prague Congress Centre

49480. I4.1 European-WP development on functional materials for diagnostics and H&CD systems in future fusion reactors

Rafael Vila (Fusion Materials Unit)

9/8/16, 8:30 AM

Oral

With start of EUROfusion Materials-WP in 2014, functional materials (FM) have been included as a new branch. Their main scopes are issues of optical and dielectric materials for DEMO applications. R&D of these materials are, in particular, essential for Diagnostics and Heating and Current Drive (H&CD) systems that  must provide critical services such as machine control, protection, performance...