American Vacuum Society


AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing 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. AVS publishes through the American Institute of Physics the
journals Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology and Biointerphases, which are devoted to peer-reviewed articles, and Surface Science Spectra, 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.

Organization

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