Abstract
Solid breeder materials for fusion power plants are subjected to extreme conditions of radiation damage, high temperature and designed component burn-up. The loss of lattice stability of Li2TiO3 due to Li burn-up was investigated using first principles-based approaches to aid evaluation of upper limit of component lifetime. The lattice stability is analyzed using calculated phonon dispersion in the Li2TiO3 supercell, while Li burn-up is modeled by the introduction of Li-vacancies. It has been determined that the studied ceramic can be structurally stable up to ∼40% of Li atoms burn-up. At 50% burn-up, the negative frequency branch in the phonon dispersion spectrum appears indicating the loss of lattice dynamical stability. Moreover, the structure obtained by introduction of unstable frozen phonons with minima energy amplitude also results in a phonon dispersion with negative branches in the structure obtained. Therefore, the system completely loses stability when approximately half of Li atoms are consumed.
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