US 12,035,457 B2
Systems, devices, and methods for deformation reduction and resistance in metallic bodies
Sergey Y. Taskaev, Novosibirsk (RU); Alexandr N. Makarov, Novosibirsk (RU); and Evgeniia O. Sokolova, Novosibirsk (RU)
Assigned to TAE Technologies, Inc., Foothill Ranch, CA (US)
Filed by TAE Technologies, Inc., Foothill Ranch, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/383,188.
Claims priority of application No. RU2020124384 (RU), filed on Jul. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0030696 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H05H 6/00 (2006.01); A61N 5/10 (2006.01); G21B 1/17 (2006.01); G21B 1/19 (2006.01); H05H 5/06 (2006.01)
CPC H05H 6/00 (2013.01) [A61N 5/1077 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1022 (2013.01); A61N 2005/109 (2013.01); H05H 5/063 (2013.01); H05H 2277/11 (2013.01)] 57 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a beam system having a target that comprises a lithium layer and a metallic substrate, the method comprising:
(a) subjecting the target to charged particle radiation such that the target emits neutrons and a plurality of blisters are formed in the target; and
(b) subjecting the target to further charged particle radiation such that the target emits neutrons and the plurality of blisters are reduced in quantity and/or size by subjecting the target to a proton energy fluence of at least 0.5 times 1019 per square centimeter (cm−2).