American Vacuum Society

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AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing

Abbreviation	AVS
Formation	June 18, 1953
Type	NPO[1]
Location	New York
Membership	4,500[2]
Official language	English
President	Bridget Rogers David P. Adams (Past-President)
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. In 2019 American Institute of Physics and AVS launched jointly a new journal, AVS Quantum Science.^[5]

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

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.

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

• 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)

• AVS web site

• 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