Standard Procedures for the IAEA Dust Database: Preparation, Measurements, and Upload

An IAEA Coordinated Research Project in the years 2008-2012 was devoted to Characterization of Size, Composition and Origins of Dust in Fusion Devices. In connection with this CRP a dust database infrastructure was created at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany. Aiming at an international standardized database the present report describes standard procedures for the preparation and imaging of dust samples and for the subsequent image processing, analysis and upload into a database.