American Vacuum Society
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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.
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Abbreviation | AVS |
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Formation | June 18, 1953 |
Type | NPO[1] |
Location | |
Membership | 4,500[2] |
Official language | English |
President | David P. Adams Michael D. Williams (Past-President) |
Affiliations | American Institute of Physics IUVSTA |
Website | www.avs.org |
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]