American Vacuum Society

AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing
Abbreviation AVS
Formation June 18, 1953
Type NPO[1]
Location
Membership
4,500[2]
Official language
English
President
 Chip Eddy
Affiliations American Institute of Physics IUVSTA
Website www.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.

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
  • Applied Surface Science Division
  • Biomaterial Interfaces Division
  • Electronic Materials/Photonics Division
  • Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures Division
  • Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Division
  • Plasma Science and Technology Division
  • Surface Science Division
  • Thin Film Division
  • Vacuum Technology Division

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 Awards

References

  1. ↑ Article I, Constitution, AVS.
  2. ↑ About AVS?, AVS.
  3. 1 2 AIP: A Federation of the Physical Sciences, American Institute of Physics.
  4. ↑ The old name can still be found in Article I of the AVS constitution.
  5. ↑ "Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Award". avs.org. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
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