American Vacuum Society
AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing (formerly American Vacuum Society) is an American society of physicists, which was founded in 1953.
The AVS is a member of the American Institute of Physics and has about 5,000 members worldwide, which are composed of the areas of science, pro-government laboratories and industry. The company publishes more than the American Institute of Physics, the scientific journal Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology ( JVST A and B).
The AVS itself consists of eleven technical divisions and two technical groups:
- Advanced Surface Engineering Division
- Applied Surface Science Division
- Biomaterial interfaces Division
- Electronic Materials and Processing 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