American Vacuum Society

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New York

Membership

4,500^[2]

Official language

English

President

David P. Adams
Michael D. Williams (Past-President)AffiliationsAmerican Institute of Physics IUVSTAWebsitewww.avs.org

AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing^[3] (formerly American Vacuum Society^[4]) is a not-for-profit learned society founded in 1953 focused on disciplines related to materials, interfaces, and processing. AVS has approximately 4500 members worldwide from academia, governmental laboratories and industry.

AVS is a member society of the American Institute of Physics.^[3] AVS publishes through the American Institute of Physics the journals Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology (JVST A and B) and Biointerphases, which are devoted to peer-reviewed articles, and Surface Science Spectra (SSS), which publishes peer-reviewed articles with reference spectra of technological and scientific interest. In 2019 American Institute of Physics and AVS launched jointly a new journal, AVS Quantum Science.^[5]

Organization

AVS is composed of 10 technical divisions, two technical groups, 16 regional chapters, two international chapters and one international affiliate:

Advanced Surface Engineering Division^[6]
Applied Surface Science Division^[7]
Biomaterial Interfaces Division^[8]
Electronic Materials/Photonics Division^[9]
Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures Division^[10]
Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Division
Plasma Science and Technology Division^[11]
Surface Science Division^[12]
Thin Film Division (TF)^[13]
Vacuum Technology Division^[14]

AVS Technical Groups Division

Manufacturing Science & Technology Technical Group (MSTG)
MEMS and NEMS Technical Group

Conferences

The AVS International Symposium and Exhibition is AVS's flagship conference. The symposium addresses cutting-edge issues associated with materials, processing, and interfaces in the research and manufacturing communities. AVS also sponsors a variety of topical conferences, including the International Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition and the North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy.

AVS professional awards

Dorothy Hoffman Award^[15]
Medard W. Welch Award
John A. Thornton Memorial Award & Lecture

AVS graduate student awards

Russell and Sigurd Varian Award
Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Award
Nellie Yeoh Whetten Award
Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Scholarship
Graduate Research Award (GRA)

References

^ Article I, Constitution, AVS.
^ About AVS? Archived 2020-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, AVS.
^ ^a ^b AIP: A Federation of the Physical Sciences, American Institute of Physics.
^ The old name can still be found in Article I of the AVS constitution.
^ "AVS Quantum Science". pubs.aip.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
^ "Advanced Surface Engineering Division (ASED)". Retrieved 2022-01-03.
^ "Division: Applied Surface Science (AS)". avs67.avs.org. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
^ "Division: Biomaterial Interfaces (BI)". avs67.avs.org. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
^ "Division: Electronic Materials and Photonics (EM)". avs67.avs.org. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
^ "October News Letter 2003 - CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS". ieeemagnetics.org. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
^ "Division: Plasma Science & Technology (PS)". avs67.avs.org. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
^ "Division: Surface Science (SS)". avs67.avs.org. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
^ "Division: Thin Film (TF)". avs67.avs.org. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
^ "Division: Vacuum Technology (VT)". avs67.avs.org. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
^ "Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Award". avs.org. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2017.

External links

AVS web site

Archival collections

AVS miscellaneous publications, 1980-2015, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Vacuum Society addition to records, 1971-2015, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Vacuum Society records, 1953-2007, Niels Bohr Library & Archives