American Vacuum Society

AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing (formerly American Vacuum Society ) 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 (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.

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 (TF)
 * 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 professional awards

 * Dorothy Hoffman Award
 * Medard W. Welch Award
 * John A. Thornton Memorial Award & Lecture

AVS graduate student awards

 * 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)

Archival collections

 * 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